What to do with old eggs??

[MissChick@dee]

I make Maggot farms out of old eggs.
Warning Maggot farms stink, but chickens will feast on the maggots that fall out of them.

This is Justin Rhodes and his Maggot Dispenser. I really like his videos.
If I am not certain if they are bad I just feed them to chickens or other pets, if they are rotten the animals won't eat them and then shovel it up or pour it out of the pie pan feeder into the Maggot farm. Mostly the maggot farm eggs I use are from the ones that failed to hatch from the incubator.

Excellent!!! I’d love to do that one day

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

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This is dedicated to you Shamo...zoom in lol

NO, not the Kenny G CD! I actually like Kenny G....... I sometimes put it in the CD player on a lazy Sunday afternoon, relaxing on the couch reminiscing about the years gone by. *sheds a tear* Anyway, let's hope the CD doesn't get scratched!

 

[Compost King]

Any eggs that I don't deem appropriate to eat, and find questionable even for animal feed get buried in an out of the way spot in the garden or yard.

Thats actually one of the best ideas, I have never used eggs for that but bury them deep enough for scavengers not to smell them and you are adding great nutrients to the soil.

 

[lazy gardener]

Any eggs that don't hatch get buried. I figure better to return those nutrients to the soil, than to flush them down the toilet.

 

[Zinjifrah]

Thats actually one of the best ideas, I have never used eggs for that but bury them deep enough for scavengers not to smell them and you are adding great nutrients to the soil.

Any eggs that don't hatch get buried. I figure better to return those nutrients to the soil, than to flush them down the toilet.

Both excellent ideas. You can also save up a few old eggs in the fridge, and toss them in the hole under a tree or bush that you're planting along with the myco-pack for a boost - the egg shells as well as the contents are great for plants. Fish guts are even better.

 

[RodNTN]

If you have some eggs that are old, and you don't want to eat them for that reason only, then I would give to a dog or some chickens... but a rotten egg gets busted on the side of a tree at my house

 

[MissChick@dee]

(Wonders what the tree did)

 

[21hens-incharge]

Plus shelters will not except the eggs just like they don’t except home canned goods. The shelter also has rules that if things haven’t been through the pasteurizing process an FDA approved and all of that they will not except them. Sam won’t even except vegetables from the garden

Same thing around here, no FDA approval they wont accept them.


personally I would break one by one into a small bowl. Any bad ones can be sent to the trash etc while good ones can go into a bigger bowl. Those can be scrambled etc as others have suggested.

 

[Beer can]

Save them for Halloween,

 

[Beer can]

This is what I do with my old eggs...i hard boil them then put them shells and all in the food processor then feed them back to my birdsView attachment 1489320

Your chickens (or dogs for that matter) will love you for scrambling them and serving them for their breakfast. Interesting idea to boil them and use the food processor! Hadn't thought of that.

Pretty easy and rather than just crack the egg and scramble cook, the birds also get the benefit of the shells/calcium. I use a cheap hand crank cast iron meat grinder, think it was around $35 at Walmart, I see they have some now for $15. Grinds the whole hard boiled eggs pretty easy and minces them up (the shells) real fine.