What do you do with not fertile eggs

[Maiahr]

Hello, I would like to ask you what do you do with eggs that you have set to hatch and at candling you have found they are not fertile?
I personally crack them and if they have not rotten and really not fertile, I boil them and give them to the chicks. The shells - grind in a coffee grinder and give for calcium. BUT I would like to know what other people do.. as I don't like throwing them away and with shells they are no good for compost as well.. ?

 

[cmfarm]

I just throw mine outside.

 

[Maiahr]

@cmfarm where is 'outside'? In the garden or a bin? The shells aren't compostable I think...

 

[EggWalrus]

@cmfarm where is 'outside'? In the garden or a bin? The shells aren't compostable I think...

The shells will compost, but they take longer and differently from "soft" things. The shells release calcium and other needed minerals into the surrounding soil/compost over a long period of time, even if they don't seem to do anything. Shells are good for your compost.

 

[Maiahr]

Ah ok, I didn't know they are compostable. Thank you

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If it is within the first week of incubation, I'll boil them and feed to chickens but if it is later than that, I compost them.
Virtually anything that is plant, animal or fungi is compostable.

 

[chickens really]

I toss them in the garbage..