Chickens and eggs

[Piratesailor]

So we have 21 chickens. Most matured last summer and started laying. They free range. So thinking that they’d taper off in the winter I glassed about 18 dozen eggs. Easy to do and store in our pantry…

fast forward to our spring and we are getting 18-20 eggs a day. And oh, they didn’t taper off in the winter and we didn’t have any losses from predators like we usually do. (Many reasons for that). So eggs galore.

glassing is easy and great way to store eggs for a year or more. In the mean time the family and neighbors are loving our eggs. Lol.

Anyone else try it?

[~MG~]

So we have 21 chickens. Most matured last summer and started laying. They free range. So thinking that they’d taper off in the winter I glassed about 18 dozen eggs. Easy to do and store in our pantry…

fast forward to our spring and we are getting 18-20 eggs a day. And oh, they didn’t taper off in the winter and we didn’t have any losses from predators like we usually do. (Many reasons for that). So eggs galore.

glassing is easy and great way to store eggs for a year or more. In the mean time the family and neighbors are loving our eggs. Lol.

Anyone else try it?

Haven't tried it yet, but might this summer. I can research how to do it, but I'm curious as to what kind of containers you store the glassed eggs in - especially large quantities. Thanks!

[Piratesailor]

We used the 64oz wide mouth Ball jars and Mrs wages pickling lime. I kinda have big hands so even with the wide mouth jars I couldn’t het my hand in to set the eggs. I would up using a serving spoon.

[SparkyPrep]

I've got 8 chickens, and they produce more eggs than we can eat. I give eggs away to my mom, and my kids. I still have enough left over to sell a few dozen occasionally. I have a Carolina Coop that uses the deep litter method in the hen house. They have a rather large channel on YouTube and are a true American company that actually cares about their customers, even after you spend your money with them. I highly recommend. Anyway, I have recently started making homemade pickled eggs, and everyone seems to love them.

[Inor]

We presently have 21 mature chickens and 8 more in my workshop waiting to get big enough to go outside. So yes, we already have FAR more eggs than we need and once the 8 new ones start laying... We do not sell them because frankly, the bookkeeping vs what we would make is just not worth the hassle. Plus, once you start selling something, folks feel they have a right to complain about it if the eggs are too small or too brown or too blue or whatever. So the neighbors love us for the "free" eggs.

Some folks offer a few dollars once in a while to cover feed etc. Those are the people that I know I can count on if we ever need anything. The rest... We'll continue to offer "free" eggs when we have them but I have no obligation to them for anything. That knowledge, alone, is worth more than the cost of a few dozen eggs.

[Piratesailor]

Exactly! Selling them isn’t worth it and since they free range our cost is low. A few neighbors throw a few bucks here and there.

And the best part, one neighbor makes us a quiche that’s fantastic.

I guess threatening the chickens, that they’d make a good soup if they didn’t produce, may have worked. Lol