What do YOU use to collect your eggs?

[BriColie]

We got 10 different kinds, Leghorns, Wyandottes, Easter Eggers, French Copper Marans, RIR, Black Australorps, Black Sex links, New Hamps, Speckled Sussex, Blue Marans, Ameraucana, Welsummers, & Buff Orpington. Did you got bored yet ??? Ha ha I think that was 13 different breeds and we don't wash our eggs if you care to know lol.

The first year we just want fresh eggs period, 2nd year we want some dark eggs, 3rd year we want some colored eggs, the 4th Year we want some more kinds. That's how you'll end up with chicken fuzzy math. Then repeat LOL

That's amazing!

That's kind of what we are doing now - we have buff orp, rir, & barred rock hens...all produce about the same colored eggs - which are fine! & lovely, but now we'd like a little variety, so next month we're getting golden laced wyandottes...& some khaki Campbell ducks...& 2 geese lol.

We don't wash our eggs either...i think they look naturally, amazingly clean. we've (so far) never got an egg with any poop on it...i was even more surprised to see that (so far, as well) none of our hens are pooping in their favorite laying box - which is nice!

 

[BriColie]

This is what I use to dry after washing $5.99 at TSC.

This is what I scrub them with.

GC

You could prob collect with that basket too! I love them all lol...I'll def have to take the 2 hour trip to tsc! Or maybe order online??

 

[BriColie]

I have good intentions baskets that I occasionally remember to take to the coop, but mostly I use my shirt. Sometimes I'll bring them back in the water bucket I toted up there to refresh water. Then they are transferred to my counter top basket, which varies with the size of the flock. Since my flock is only a dozen laying hens and one rooster nowadays, my basket is pretty small. There the eggs stay until eaten or packaged up for giving away to family and friends. No washing takes place and they never make it to a fridge. The counter basket...not the collection basket/shirt.

That's still a good amount of eggs! We don't wash our eggs either

 

[GC-Raptor]

I love it!!! I want one! Lol...do you know if they work good in weather conditions? Like rain?

I drilled 4 eighth inch holes to drain any liquid.

GC

 

[BriColie]

I drilled 4 eighth inch holes to drain any liquid.

GC

That's a cool idea!

 

[chickiemom3]

A friend of mine at work found this at a garage sale. Another friend knotted a small round doily to go in the bottom to prevent cracking eggs. We smile every time we use it!

 

[Beekissed]

Been collecting eggs from the nest from the time I could walk and that's been a LONG time ago, but I never cease to be thrilled each time I look in a nest box and see clean, lovely eggs in there. I guess it goes back to Easter egg hunts and such, but finding those eggs feels so very good to me. I love the way they look, the way they feel and even the shape of them...it's just poetry to me. Sometimes I'll rub them across my cheek and smell them, feeling their lovely shape and smoothness, greeting them like an old friend.

Think of how many people, who have always bought eggs from a store, see eggs as perfect snow white things lined up neatly in a carton...bland, uniform in shape and size, pale insipid tasting yolks and watery whites inside. They have no idea what it's like to go out of an evening and pick them out of a nest on their own land, warm or cool to the touch, silky smooth or slightly textured, speckled or oddly striped at times, different colors and shades, some very round and some comically tubular and occasionally the "fill your whole hand" goose egg when you don't own a goose.

What a delight it is to discover these perfect little protein packages in all their varied beauty, lying there in a golden nest just waiting on you. Like a very personal thank you from the flock for all the feed and care you give them...each one as unique as the next, nothing uniform about them at all. Richly, deeply golden orange yolks that stand up and smile at you when you crack them into the pan, whites that are thick and gelatinous as they should be and a flavor that's like a kiss of goodness.

Don't know why, but I just felt like singing an egg song of praise about the loveliness of our eggs!

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[Finnie]

First I bought this basket at a garage sale to collect eggs in. But it was so pretty, I preferred to keep it on the counter to display the eggs. We're not getting very many eggs right now, so it's currently a fruit basket:

Then I bought this at Hobby Lobby:

But like others, I would forget to grab it on my way out. So one day I used this, from a plant that came potted in it from the grocery store. (The plant was outside, I already had on my "chicken poop" shoes, didn't want to go back in.)

I like this one so well, that I retired the other ones. I just keep it near the door, and if I forget it, I can reach in and grab it without having to step inside.

But, if I find eggs while I am out giving the chickens their scratch grains, then I just put them in the empty grain scoop:

I also do not wash eggs unless they are dirty. I keep them on the counter in the baskets and in this skelter:

If they are just a little dirty, I wipe the dirt with a damp paper towel and leave them out. If they are more dirty and need vigorous rinsing or wiping, I put those straight into the fridge, in cartons. And if they are hanging around on the counter longer than a week, I move those to the fridge too. Depends on how many slackers I have out there.

 

[BriColie]

A friend of mine at work found this at a garage sale. Another friend knotted a small round doily to go in the bottom to prevent cracking eggs. We smile every time we use it!

Oh my goodness! I love it! I love homemade gifts, always from the heart

 

[snow5164]

I too feel so happy when I see a pile of eggs ,
They do look like an Easter basket

I take my basket each morning with my jar of fermented feed in it , usually carry back 4 or 5 eggs then go back in the afternoon to collect 4 or 5 again!!
I have a tea towel in my wire basket , the eggs are strong but I don't want to waste them.

I had my first " pocket omelette " last week , I stood in the coop laughing so hard the girls thought I'd finally lost it!!!