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Too. Many. Eggs.

Seriously, someone come take these!
I raise chickens in the yard, more for enjoying their quirky personalities than for self sufficiency. (Eggs are cheep. Chiken feed isn't.) This is what happens when my family gets sick of eating eggs for a few days..
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BlueVeins · 22-25
Can't you feed them back to the chickens?
On occasion they help themselves to a cracked egg. They get loads of kitchen scraps. Usually production and demand are more equalized (household of 6 + Co workers and neighbors) but one does get sick of eggs.. sometimes we get these piles. Like if we go on vacation or don't see the neighbors much. I'll probably pickle about half of these with beets. Mostly just wanted to share a comically large pile of eggs. In the winter when the daylight shortens, they lay far less and I won't even have enough for baking. Nothing makes me more bitter than buying a carton of eggs from the grocery in February...
@JamieDeer pickled eggs...😋 yum!
@UnderLockDown right! I get bonus beets because everyone here likes the eggs in beet juice but they don't eat the beets.
JerseyGal · 56-60, F
I sure would take some & pay you for them, if I lived nearby. 🥚
being · 36-40, F
sell them at a local market once a week perhaps?
Keepitsimple · 56-60, F
Oh I wish!! You should sell them! That’s awesome!
I've never seen them look quite so green/yellow/red. but I'd echo what most others are saying, find a reasonable outlet and sell them. local grown, organic, free range(?) probably command a premium in some circles. as I look at the prices it's not as high as I'd thought, but $2-3 a dozen might be possible at the right places. enough to help offset the food costs.
@dirge some people will feed chickens additive diets with carotenoid to get a darker yolk color because in some regions (like the Mediterranean) people believe the more vibrant the yolk, the better the egg but science has proven that more or less, eggs all taste the same.
Have some basic Chicken facts:
(like humans) hens are born with all the eggs they will ever produce within their ovaries. Most production breeds will only lay consistently for about 3 of their 13 year lifespan.
Also like humans, the egg will develop and be laid regardless of being fertilized so you do not need roosters to get eggs.
@JamieDeer cool. do you keep some roosters to get a rotating stock of chicks/new chickens?
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SW-User
I'd take them if I could. I love eggs
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i have had an omelette every single day without fail, since 2016.
Love chicken eggs
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I saw a farmer once crack some eggs and feed them (raw) to the chickens, which would gladly munch on their would-have-been babies.
@SW-User chickens are definitely SAVAGE AF! They will consume their own injured flock mates but they don't really see their eggs as young unless they are "broody".
Hens have this kind of switch in their brain that goes on randomly and makes them super dedicated parents. They don't even care who laid the eggs
.. those are HER babies now! Most commercial breeds like mind seldom if ever go broody but it's very funny when they do. You have to physically remove them from their nest and make them socialize with the girlfriends a few days in a row until they snap out of it.
ViciDraco · 41-45, M
@JamieDeer haha, yeah. I always hear people talk about how cute and nice chickens are and I have to shake my head. If they only knew. Dirty, Savage little dinosaurs! But still so rewarding.
FreestyleArt · 36-40, M
*Grabs a handful* thank you very much
YMITheWayIM · 46-50, M
Sure thing.
Keeper · M
You have some happy & content chickens!
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Why not sell them to local people? This way you make a few bucks for chicken feed and your neighbors are happy.
@SW-User my neighbors get them free. It would be pretty weird to ask for money. Like A cartoonish breakfast food drug dealer. "Yea, you like that? First ones free, kid."
ViciDraco · 41-45, M
@SW-User this is what my father always did. A dollar a dozen, cheaper than the store and they would technically be considered free range organic though we never used such labels. A couple of the neighbors baked often and would sometimes come clear us out. A couple others just swore up and down they tasted better than the store.
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@ViciDraco I know a lot of people around here in New Hampshire who just stick a sign out in front of their house, or on the main road. Some of them charge $4 a dozen now and people will still buy them.

@JamieDeer lol. I didn't know your situation. What about finding a local food bank to donate to? A church that has a hot food program?
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
If you lived near me I would buy a couple of dozen a week. We are always looking for a trustworthy source of free range eggs! I make my own dog food which I can put a dozen in.
Give them to your neighbors. Maybe they could use the extra.
Omg, sure, can I come ans get some? How much per dozen?
Amazing! I bet they taste terrific too
@Ghostinthemachine they taste just the same as grocery store eggs to be totally honest.
Harl3y100 · M
They say when life gives you too many eggs, make egg salad.
PhaqueYou · M
Imagine that.... chickens producing eggs...
@PhaqueYou 🎶"it's easy if you tried, deviled eggs below us, above us only fried..."🎵
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YoMomma ·
bake something.. 🙂
Coppercoil · M
My aunt sells eggs she raises.. very cool.
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
That's alot of eggs

 
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