What do you do with bantam eggs?

[kelliepulido]

I sell mine.Everybody likes them.I also sell them here for hatching eggs I have a good fertility ratio.

 

[key west chick]

I devil mine. They are so cute. Big hit at family reunions.

 

[Theda's Mom]

I don't have bantams, but I have guineas, and they lay a very small egg too. I use them for all cooking - usually figuring two for every regular egg. I also save them especially for deviled eggs. They're perfect for that.

Fyi: Joy of Cooking has a handy-dandy chart that gives the in shell weight of different commercial sizes of eggs. I use that to convert recipes to eggs-by-weight instead of eggs-by-number. Thus when a recipe calls for 7 large eggs, I weigh out 14 oz of eggs - big, small, in betweenie, whatever.

 

[Stonerowfarm]

this is wonderful. I love the idea of deviling, as well as pickling (which I hadn't even thought of).

Since the girls have just started laying and the boys are young as well, I think I'll wait a bit before trying to sell them as fertilized eggs. I just want to make sure they have everything figured out first.

thanks for all the great responses.

 

[gocrow77]

I hatch some, eat some, or sell them - I have even given some away. they are all good!

 

[2boxers]

I pickle mine. I also serve them deviled as appetizers when we have company. The white tends to be more delicate, so you must fill them carefully.

 

[rhodiegal]

They make wonderful fillers when you need to add more egg to existing pancake batter. I will get down to just a little bit of batter left and the kids want one more pancake or waffle each (or I did not make enough to eat myself

), so since there is already remaining egg in there, I just add a banty egg and a bit more batter and milk - voila!

 

[bantiesrule]

My husband calls them "diet eggs". (Everything is worth more with the word diet in front of it-sell them for BIG bucks)

 

[Allipoe]

Never made Deviled Eggs out of them, but they make the most adorable dyed eggs EVER.

Lots of teensy tinsy multi colored eggs. Just make sure to give them a little wash before dying hehe

 

[SBC123]

My brother baked 1 banty egg per avocado half. He says the small size makes them perfect for the space left by the avocado pit.