What do you do with all your eggs?!

[chickenmeadow]

A friend just showed me something on YouTube last week that she found on preserving eggs the old fashioned way. Look up
Preserve Your Eggs for Winter " or " Old Fashioned Egg Preservation FAQ: Homesteading Family ", she has a lot of interesting recipes. This gal was making a pickling lime solution with water in a 5 gallon bucket (with lid) & adding fresh eggs as they come along (clean looking, but unwashed with natural "bloom" still on), preserving them for 8 months (for when the chickens have a heavy molt, etc. & few eggs are laid; wash the eggs off before cracking. She cracked one open & it looked like new. It sounds weird, but I'll have to try some, at least for fun, if not for practicality.Her "Dream Cheese" video looks good too. Love making old fashioned recipes & fermenting things.

I feed my extra eggs hard boiled & chopped to our 4 dogs, 2 eggs used a night. Wow, their coats are beautiful, they seem to love us even more (if that's possible) & their vitality is extra good. The rest of the eggs go to; pickled eggs (in left over pickle juice of any kind); our regular baking; bread custard/pudding made in a double boiler style, with bread (cubes), milk, eggs, raisins, apples, cinnamon & a little nutmeg. We always find something to do with what our flock of 12+ gives us. Best wishes.

 

[AllenK RGV]

My wife always insists I wash my hands after picking up a raw one. I don't know does anyone have a link to the best husbandry practices? I just can't believe they are some huge disease vector(eggs).

 

[JerryR708]

My 7 hens give me 6 eggs a day on a good day. The RIR's and Sex Link in my avatar can almost guaranty me an egg every day with a day off during the week. Easter Eggers, well...not so much. I might get 2-3 eggs a week if I've been good. The Blue and green eggs seem to be a hot commodity that people love.
*I give extra eggs to my mom, mom-in-law and grandma.
*A few co-workers buy a dozen, most have to wait in line because I have more demand than supply.
*I pickle boiled eggs and put them in large jars with vinegar, water, yellow chilies, garlic and sometimes beets for red coloring. (I use the older eggs over 1 month)
*I make large batches of corn bread and freeze it in foil.
*I make banana nut breads and freeze them in small batches and defrost what I need for coffee the next morning.
Note: If you think outside the coop, you can utilize all of your eggs without wasting them.

 

[Ameraucana5]

Old eggs can be scrambled and fed back to your birds for extra protein.

 

[tinakevin]

I have a bright yellow cooler that I sell my eggs out of. Or if I have an overflow of them I sell them to my local feed store

 

[User395221]

I just can't believe they are some huge disease vector(eggs).

They aren't (here) but anything to do with poo is potentially bug-filled.

 

[JerryR708]

My wife always insists I wash my hands after picking up a raw one. I don't know does anyone have a link to the best husbandry practices? I just can't believe they are some huge disease vector(eggs).

In my 2 years owning chickens, I have never washed my hands after handling eggs. I have never rinsed or cleaned my eggs before cooking them. Most of the time, I don't even refrigerate my eggs and If I do, they usually get boiled by then.
Either my nest is clean, or I have just been lucky.

 

[User395221]

Either my nest is clean, or I have just been lucky.

Salmonella (the one they worry about) gets into the eggs from sick chickens. They've had outbreaks but it's from farms where there've been health issues with the stock.

 

[Ameraucana5]

Yes, I always wash my hands after handling unwashed eggs.

 

[JerryR708]

Salmonella (the one they worry about) gets into the eggs from sick chickens. They've had outbreaks but it's from farms where there've been health issues with the stock.

Eggs can get contaminated from the inside, without the porous shell from having to pick up bacteria?