Winter egg laying

[jolenesdad]

And can you explain how you do those frozen eggs? I would like to try it sometime. It sounds like it'd be a really good idea for my family. Plus we have about four dozen in the fridge I don't eat eggs, The only person who does that lives here are the dogs and my husband. Kids like pancakes with sausage.

I am sure you can use any ice cube tray, but I have those silicone ones that I made and froze baby food with. Each one is like an ounce or something. I think I read originally each one should be one egg but that's not quite right for me. Maybe with a different ice tray....

Anyway, you just crack and scramble your eggs, and pour them into the ice tray. Freeze them, and pop them out and store in a bag. You can defrost in a cup and use in ANYTHING that you would use a mixed-up egg in... from pancakes, to cakes, to scrambled eggs... literally anything. I was not able to tell a difference at all in using it, but I haven't tried them yet scrambled after defrosting.

 

[Kluk-Kluk]

I usually give our extra eggs to the dogs

i have no dog, so I feed my eggs to the family

 

[FortCluck]

I am sure you can use any ice cube tray, but I have those silicone ones that I made and froze baby food with. Each one is like an ounce or something. I think I read originally each one should be one egg but that's not quite right for me. Maybe with a different ice tray....

Anyway, you just crack and scramble your eggs, and pour them into the ice tray. Freeze them, and pop them out and store in a bag. You can defrost in a cup and use in ANYTHING that you would use a mixed-up egg in... from pancakes, to cakes, to scrambled eggs... literally anything. I was not able to tell a difference at all in using it, but I haven't tried them yet scrambled after defrosting.

Thanks! I'll try it. Need to silicone trays.

 

[FortCluck]

i have no dog, so I feed my eggs to the family

I have 4. I also give away eggs. My Drs office wants all my extras now. They love them.

 

[Conan]

Eggs are a seasonal food.
Unless you have pullets hatched early enough to start laying before fall, you aren't going to get eggs in winter unless you use supplemental lighting(and the management and results of that can be far and wide in effectiveness).

I have 5 cream Brabanters that I did not get until the end of April. They all just started laying. I do not supplement lighting in my coop, but I also live in a pretty temperate zone. Also have a couple second year hens that lay every other day.
My second year Welsh Harlequins are still laying as well. Getting between 4-6 eggs a day from the group of 8.
I was NOT expecting to get a dozen eggs a day in winter.

 

[FortCluck]

I have 5 cream Brabanters that I did not get until the end of April. They all just started laying. I do not supplement lighting in my coop, but I also live in a pretty temperate zone. Also have a couple second year hens that lay every other day.
My second year Welsh Harlequins are still laying as well. Getting between 4-6 eggs a day from the group of 8.
I was NOT expecting to get a dozen eggs a day in winter.

That's amazing! Hopefully I'll get lucky like this next year. My ducks haven't laid yet. Not all of my chickens have laid their first egg either.

 

[Conan]

That's amazing! Hopefully I'll get lucky like this next year. My ducks haven't laid yet. Not all of my chickens have laid their first egg either.

If I recall correctly, my first group of ducks started laying in late December/early January. How old is your group again?

 

[FortCluck]

They're about 3 months old. 2 Pekin and a Muscovy

 

[aart]

Pretty amazing all these ~18 month old birds still laying in the low light of winter.

 

[brendave]

All my hens are molting so I haven't seen eggs in 4 weeks