If you have hens, you have eggs!! With our current laying count, we are getting about 10 eggs a day, which adds up to around 70+/- eggs per week. When all 17 of our layer hens start laying, we will be getting anywhere from 95-120 eggs per week! That is at least a dozen a day and over 8 dozen a week.
What do we do with all these eggs?!
Before chickens, we were barely eating a dozen eggs a week, so what do we do with all these eggs now? Well, I am going to tell you!! From eating them fresh to preserving them for the winter months and up to 2 years.
See the little white eggs? Those are chocolates, how cute <3
Breakfast: I am not a big morning person, and I wait a few hours after I wake up before I eat anything. However, I am certainly not opposed to eating a good omelet for lunch!
Currently my favorite brunch is an omelet, 3-4 eggs, onions, seasonings, salsa, and sour cream. If you've never tried it, DO IT, and you're welcome :)
Breakfast for Dinner: I personally love eating a good breakfast for dinner! There are 5 people who live in our house, so when we have breakfast for dinner, I cook a dozen eggs.
Our staple breakfast-dinner consist of bacon/sausage, home-made biscuits & gravy, and of course scrambled or fried eggs!! delicious
Boiled eggs: Remember how I told you about our little chicken, Chocolate. We save her eggs up until we have a dozen, and then we boil them for the perfect bite-sized snack! In-between waiting on Chocolate's eggs we will boil a dozen regular sized eggs, those do not last long because Lincoln and Abigail alone can eat them all in a day!
Baking: Making lots of cookies, banana bread, cakes.... basically, any recipe that takes eggs!!
Water glassing: No, I am not pickling eggs, and I am too afraid to try to do that for now, lol.
Water glassing eggs is when you put unwashed (poop & dirt free) eggs in a lime-water solution. The limewater fills in the pores of the eggshell and seals them. What do you think they did before refrigerators?
I have eaten some eggs that have been water glassed for a couple months, because chickens do not lay eggs in the winter months! They tastes just like the day they were laid, the only thing that is really different are the yolks. The yolks are more likely to bust. I am not sure why that is, but other than that, you can't even tell a difference. One thing I do recommend is, check the eggs (by the float test) to make sure they are not bad. A floating egg is a bad egg.
***Many people will use 5-gallon buckets and fill them with eggs and the limewater solution, but I will not be doing that because if one egg breaks then all the eggs could be ruined.
Giving the eggs away: Currently we are giving 12-18 eggs to my in-laws per week. Also, if we are feeling extra generous or we just haven't used that many eggs in a week, we will give a dozen away to a few lucky people who are close to us!
This is currently the amount of eggs we have gotten since Sunday! I even water glassed a dozen on Tuesday.
What do we do with all those shells?
Save your egg shells, especially if you have a garden! It isn't really an inconvenience, just an extra step or 3..
Wash your shells out
When you have a baking sheet full, bake them at 250 degrees for 30 minutes.
Grind them down into a very fine grit or powder.
The benefits of egg shells, great source of calcium for your chickens. Great source of calcium for your tomatoes and other plants. Put them around your Hosta's or other garden shrubs/plants where slugs like to live. I'm sure there is more, but these are the things I use them for!
If you had thoughts of getting chickens but didn't know what to do with all the eggs, I hope this post gave you a little insight on what all you can do to use them up!
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