What do you do with YOUR eggs?

[holliewould]

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Well, I can only eat so many eggs and everyone else is all feaked out by them here. Soooo now a days I juggle with them.

 

[fowltemptress]

Eat and cook with them, give some to friends . . . several wind up soft boiled for my dogs' enjoyment, and whenever there's a broody, a few get hatched. One was blown out and used as part of a magic act that I read about in The Great Brain series. Pretty standard stuff.

 

[conny63malies]

Well i only have millie that lays about 4-5 eggs a week.I collect them in a basket and the kids eat them every weekend for breakfast.

 

[al6517]

I am getting between 8-10 eggs a day now, but the flood should come very soon as i have 30 pullets that are starting in at laying about 1 more bird per couple of days. so by thanksgiving I should be getting 40 eggs a day. some of the eggs are still a little small to sell, I don't have any Banty's, so I am just eating some, giving some away to friends and neighbors, and feeding most back w/crushed shells. next spring the eggs should all be decent sizes to sell, maybe pay for some feed.
AL

 

[pdsavage]

Now that its getting cooler i do lots of backing with them.The few eggs that i get at the moment.I also cheat the Amish up the road sells farm fresh eggs for $1.50 a dozzen so i use those till mine start laying good in the spring.But i also eat em as just eggs over easy,scrambled,poached and hard boiled ect ect ect....

Oh yeah i incubated 3 so far of my ownThey didnt hatch...

 

[HennysMom]

We get 6 eggs a day most days, sometimes 5 - depends on 1 of my girls (she lays big eggs). So in any given week we have 3- 3.5 dozen eggs. We sell them for $1.50 a dozen to hubby's work and give some to neighbors, as well as keep some for ourselves.

We have other people that say we dont charge enough - they're selling their eggs (organic) for $4.50 a dozen AND GETTING IT! I'm just shocked! I guess I'm not in it for the money, I'm more in it just for the fun of having chickens, the greatness of having something natural and knowing whats going into it and knowing that my girls are treated like animals should be.

Maybe I'm the oddball ??

Anyone else feel that way? We do use the $ we get to help buy "goodies" for the girls, but its so little money we actually see as most of the time we actually give the eggs away - times are hard and money is tight for everyone. Then again, maybe its just me...

 

[seedcorn]

Mine are bantam eggs that I forget to collect unless I'm eating eggs. So usually someone goes broody so I let her sit for week then toss eggs. Not very economical minded but it's the truth.

How do you blow out eggs and clean out the insides? What do you do w/holes? Dad talked about sucking eggs but I never wanted to do it, like to see it before I eat it.....

 

[2dream]

I get anywhere from 12 to 23 eggs a day. And that is not all my girls laying. I have over 40 girls in one house and 5 silkie banty hens and 5 cornish banty hens in a seperate pen. I only get 4 to 5 eggs a day out of that house. I keep the small eggs for my personal use. Plus use a lot of the large eggs. All my neighbors get a dozen eggs each a week free of charge. (I kind of made everyone mad when I got the chickens and demanded that all dogs be confined or...... well, I will let you fill in the blank).
Anyway, now everyone is happy. No one complains about my 5 roosters crowing, or having to keep their dogs confined. Everyone in the neighborhood watches out for the chickens, comes to see how they are and one neighbor even helps with the feed now. What is not used at my house or by my neighbors I sell at work for $2 a doz if you furnish your own carton or 2.50 if I furnish your carton.
All egg shells, and any older eggs are fed back to the chickens.

 

[Harley's girl]

I sell mine to a bakery. And I also sell them for hatching. Occasionally I will hatch them my self. (When I say occasionally I mean about once a month! LOL

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[LuvinMyPeeps]

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I poke holes in both ends with a pin very carefully all the way around until the hole is about 1/8" or less, then blow! LOL. I am going to get a egg blower/sucker thingy on-line that will do it for you (like a little sqeezy bulb thing). (see Martha Stewart's website or search on ebay for "egg blower"). Once they are blown out you can rinse them with water and some vinegar to make sure they don't start smelling. What I did was block the bottom hole with my finger, then run a fine stream of water in the top hole, fill it about 1/4 with water, then shake and blow the water out. Do this about 2-3 times and it should be clean. You can repeat once with vinegar, but I never did and they don't smell or attract any bugs. I have some of mine for over 5 years and no bugs.

I've always left the holes, but then I try to make the holes as small as possible. I've never tried it, but I bet you could fill them with the drywall putty and let them dry, then paint them if you didn't want to leave them natural? I wonder what they would look like if you filled the putty prior to dying?

One time I bought brown eggs from the market and dyed them - they looked so pretty with the muted country colors. I set them in an easter display during the season.

I wouldn't suck them out...I don't like raw eggs. Not to mention I would not want to save or cook anything from what you blew out - talk about major backwash....eeeeew!