What do you do with all those eggs?

[Blooie]

How could I have forgotten that? Sheesh - nearing 70 is getting scary! Thanks!

 

[Maugwa]

I haven't tried it but a friend of mine freezes extra eggs by cracking them into zip lock bags. She disposes of the shell. And she has eggs all year long that way.

Don't toss the shells. I save all of my eggshells from my kitchen in a cardboard flat in the back screen porch. I want them to dry, so they are somewhat spread out in the flat. They crunch up easier and don't get smelly dried. Each week or so I crunch what I've dried by hand into coffee cans. I mix my own chicken feed sort of. I use a mix that is 50% laying pellets, but the other 50% is a mixture of what I find cheap, what's good, what season it is, what I need to reach a protein goal, etc. For example, let's say I was at a truck stop in an elevator town in grain country, and come across a pile out back where somebody leaked about 3 bushels of barley (this happened last fall), and a mystery egg customer left me two five gallon buckets of whole corn, but to use up these free grains, I need more protein, so I buy some a couple bags of black oil sunflower seeds, but while I'm at the farm store, I see a taped up 80% full bag of small rabbit alfalfa pellets marked half price, and a bag of laying pellets taped and priced like this too, etc. It's never the same mix, other than the half that's laying pellets, but it may go something like this; 1 scoop of laying pellets, one scoop of barley, one scoop laying pellets, one scoop of corn, one scoop laying pellets, one scoop BOS, half a scoop alfalfa, one cup crushed egg shells (for calcium), one cup DE, mix it up by hand, repeat until covered metal trash can is full.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I go through about a dozen per week. Direct consumption about 8 eggs per week then the rest are used in baking or making pasta. Eggs are an excellent source of inexpensive protein.

 

[mesalina87]

You can freeze your excess eggs. You need freezable mason jars to do this. I wide mouth pint jars. You crack your eggs and scramble them in the jar and add a 1 tsp salt. I get any where from 6-8 eggs in each pint. 3 tbsp. equals one egg. This is great for cakes and quiche. Frozen eggs keep up to 1 years.

 

[NoodlesMama]

I have a few elderly neighbors in not the best health so I make quiches and other baked goods with my extra eggs and take them to them and sometimes I just give them eggs. It keeps waste down and it also gives them a nice visit and shows them they are still valued members of our community.

 

[MeginTennessee]

I usually average 3-5 eggs every day. Every week I take the eggs we haven't ate and either scramble them or hard boil them and divvy them up as healthy treats for the cats, dogs, or our miniature pig (she LOVES egg sandwiches! ). When i have chicks or ducklings I'll give them some too. I use the shells in my gardens and the cooked shells I toss back to the chickens. None ever go to waste around here!

 

[Bonniebooboo]

Make friends with people on the Keto diet. They can't get enough eggs!

As others have said, we scramble a bunch each week to feed back to the chickens and our other birds. I mix in some herbs too.

I found an hardboiled egg makers thing on Amazon for pretty cheap.

Agree. I have a couple friends on Keto diet. They are eating lots of eggs. who knows how long that will last. but it sure helps for now.

 

[Bonniebooboo]

I was getting 2 dozen a day, the girls have cut that back to about 18 eggs a day, some trying to be broody, but 18 week olds are starting to lay now. I take a day and make up a bunch of breakfast burritos. 2-3 dozen burritos at a time. cool, wrap and freeze. I also cook up eggs for the dogs, and the chickens/chicks, even the cats like cooked scrambled eggs. some friends like the eggs and family members get some. The egg shells always go back to the birds. I haven't tried the freezing in ice trays yet, but that is the next option I am going try. no Idea how long they keep or how good that works in recipes.

 

[killeengreen]

We have 6 hens and get anywhere from 35-42 eggs/week. We have started selling 1-2 dozen per week. We set that money aside to pay for feed, straw etc. You can freeze eggs, or maybe take them to your local food bank.

 

[Miss Eliza]

I'm getting up to 10 eggs a day and am quickly running out of options for what to do with them. Short of chucking them, that is.

My friends are all stocked up, we are sick of eating eggs and now we have a backlog in the 20's. So, what are some things you guys do to use up those extra eggs? Today's basket (from yesterday and today)
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They can be beaten and frozen. So if you normally use two eggs at a time when you cook, go ahead and whisk them then put into ziplocks to lay flat in your freezer.
You can pickle them.
You can make eggnog.
There is also water glass preserving-which I have never done!