What do you do with your extra eggs?

[suenrob]

I scramble them for the dogs and chickens, give a few to friends and neighbors as gifts, and everytime I go to a covered dish affair, I am expected to bring the deviled eggs. (they are my specialty)

 

[chickenwoods]

I work all day long,and come home and spend the rest of my daylight hours working with my chickens,and my garden,
Alot of people i know tell me," man your never gonna beat the big egg companys so why even have chickens..what is your time worth"...i just tell them i do it for the pleasure of the outdoors and stuff. but they got to at least pay for theyre undbelievable feed cost..Feed costs have gone up here one dollor in a week! makes it 14$ a bag. last year it was only like 10.00 a bag...

I have 20 or so hens, and i only eat about a dozen a week, so most of my eggs are extra. Yeah i give em away,but they always tip me. LOL Poor men cant live in a rich mans world with out having a rich mans licsence...its pathetic!!Try to choke out the poor man and then all the work goes to foriegn countrys and then the country is going to fall apart,because the only reason someone can make somthing cheaper is because its cheaper made..and then we all be poor...sorry i get to going...

but i speak truth.only time will tell.

 

[Davaroo]

However, I get irritated when I ask someone if they need any eggs and they say, "No. I just bought a dozen at the grocery store." Why don't they give me $2 for eggs instead of the grocery giant? I mean, this is what I hear from my sister all the time. Grrr.
Because they dont know why they should- and you havent given them enough reason to want to.

 

[fullhouse]

No extras here, but if there were they would go to friends. Family always gets our eggs first and I am always low! We need more hens

 

[lengel]

I usually get something back in "trade". It's completely unofficial. Our neighbors with bees give us their honey and our dog trainer gave us a 5% discount. I know for a fact that the nurses are more aware of my mother in law as a result of the things I bake for them. I would get a great deal of satisfaction out of donating the eggs as well but I have no idea of how that would work in our area and I would want assurances that they wouldn't be wasted.

 

[Gindee77]

When I had chickens a few years back, I just asked for donations. Once word of mouth got around that I had fresh farm eggs, I couldn't keep up with the demand. Most people were generous with their donations and my 25 hens more than paid their own way.

I won't have nearly that many chickens or eggs, but I have co-workers lining up for fresh eggs already! My pullets won't start laying until sometime in the fall...Sept. or Oct. I'll give my family first choice and give away the rest, with a donation jar!

 

[lengel]

Thanks for all of your input. I found a small local thrift store that has a food pantry (really a couple of refrigerators and storage shelves). They'll take anything apparently. Good news for our peach tree production later this summer as well! Took in our first bucket of eggs yesterday and they were so pleased . . .

 

[Davaroo]

I gotta confess to being an entrepreneurial type. I think in terms of "how much." A lot goes into those eggs, something must come back to balance the scale. And I aint talking just karma, but dollars.

 

[texasreb]

I sell mine for $2.00/doz. I've told my buyers to expect a .25/doz increase in price due to rising feed costs. Nobody complained. The SO and I each have our buyers from work that buy a couple dozen every week or so, the excess goes to a Vietnamese lady who owns a restaurant. She'll buy up to 20 doz/week--we never have that many so we're buying more hens!

 

[Barnyard Dawg]

My wife started selling her eggs at the college she works at she is getting $3.00 a dozen.