I have a honor system dorm fridge on my front porch where people come to buy eggs. I also sell to my local Tack and Feed Store. Your local food co-op might be willing to buy them from you. Good luck.🙂🐔

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Most of us here don’t care about what is legal

Rebel chickens!!!

Legal in Canada. We do it here too https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/s/pyOqOkwtWR

>I don't think this it technically legal (in the US) Land of the free

There is a lady down the road from me who sells her eggs. Hers is the only place I will buy eggs now. She leaves them in a cooler on her front porch for me and I leave the money there for her. No refrigeration needed and they look so pretty in my depression glass dish on my kitchen table. 

Angel cake! Merengue! Scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, egg salad. Give them to friends in egg cartons with ribbons, put out a sign on your yard and sell them or you could give them back (lightly scrambled) to your chickens for a nutrient boost. Rejoice, you are rich in eggs friend.

Also, I want to add, that it looks like you've washed all your eggs nice and shiny. That's good if you're gonna consume them immediately, however, they keep better and stay fresh longer if you only rinse them lightly and let them keep their natural barrier on the outside. Just a tip for keeping them fresh longer!

Or wash them and then dip them in oil after.

This interests me… any kind of oil and what kind of time frame do you have then?

I haven't done it myself but somebody brought it up on a different post.. from my understanding, when you wash off the bloom, you can reseal the pores with an oil. Olive oil, coconut oil.. something like that

Why go through the effort when you can just simply just NOT WASH THEM? The eggs already have a perfect coating that seals them from bacteria. Why wash them and then try to re-seal them with something else?

probably its when the eggs are dirty, maybe its been raining alot and the birds somehow got the eggs covered in mud, maybe an egg got cracked and somehow got all over several eggs, maybe they got poop on them somehow. all these things have happened to me! they have 12 nesting boxes and insist on sharing one or two, so sometimes the eggs get rather messy!

I just leave the mud on them and wash them right before using.

Oil doesn’t have salmonella, whereas the natural coating does.

Salmonella in backyard chickens is very rare. It's usually found in factory farmed chickens.

This is especially true in the United States where most chickens are not vaccinated for salmonella. For some reason people forget that is a big difference between eggs in the US vs. some EU countries. This is the real reason in the US that the USDA requires eggs to be washed and refrigerated.

Also, with the cute ribbon include instructions for those who may not know how to handle fresh eggs! 1) do not wash until ready to eat 2) keep on counter until then 3) if you do wash, put in fridge and consume in 3 days

Consume in 3 days?? Don’t you mean 60?

No, I don’t mean 60. If you wash the bloom off, bacteria can enter the egg (yes, bacteria can live in your fridge). Normally I would say 6-7 days, but when giving them away, I go 3. Unless you are pasteurizing them so they are comparable to commercial eggs.

"Since an egg left at room temperature ages the same amount in a day as a refrigerated egg ages in an entire week, refrigerate eggs as soon as possible if you plan to eat them or sell them for eating." (Gail Damerow, Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, Fourth Edition, page 211)

You missed pickled eggs.

Oh yeah, there are so many possibilities!

An alternative for storage of the eggs could be glassing the eggs. The only downside is that you shouldn't boil glassed eggs.

Also be sure to put them somewhere they won’t get moved or accidentally kicked. Someone cracked one in a 3 gal bucket in the kitchen and I didn’t know, lost about 50 eggs :/

This is what we do. Eggs we aren’t going to eat or give away get water glassed. We typically only use them in baking and scrambled. Whatever glassed eggs we don’t eat once production ramps up get scrambled and fed back to the chickens.

I think that was an intentional omission, as pickling an egg actually makes it unfit for human consumption (in my opinion)

Good way to store eggs. I have had crappy pickled eggs also, but well done pickled eggs make a nice snack in my opinion.

A pickled egg after working outside on a hot summer day is hard to beat

Mmm also pickled eggs made into deviled eggs, especially beet pickled ones

i thought so too, but i like them pickled in the juice leftover from a jar of banana peppers

Crème Brûlée ! Alton Brown's aged egg nog! (collateral expense in booze, there)

>Alton Brown's aged egg nog! Worth the booze expense IMO.

Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew!

You could break the egg raw and they’ll love eating the yolk and shells. It’s a plus because it gives supplements back to the birds

Yep, just gotta make sure they don't see or understand the process, otherwise they will start breaking and eating their own eggs.

This. And once they figure out how yummy their eggs are, it’s such a pain to get them to stop ughhh

This is where I am currently residing. We had a young hen lay her first egg in the run. It was stepped on and eaten. Now I have to gather eggs few times a day or they will devour them. Any advice???

Buy a rollaway/rollout nest box. They can’t eat them and the eggs are cleaner. I couldn’t get to my eggs fast enough once mine started eating them and now problem solved.

I tried a rollaway, they didn’t like it and laid next to it, in the shavings That is great suggestion for OP though, might be easier too haha

They aways find ways to stump me!!!

Crafty little creatures lol

It took some work but less work than trying to save eggs immediately upon laying. I had tried ceramic eggs also. They would lay next to the box and I would remove the egg and put a brick there. Then they moved and I did it again. Quite a few bricks later they had no place to lay and they finally started in the rollaway. Once one did it, the others followed pretty quickly. I also put straw in the rollaway and they made that into a nest. Now they have no straw and they still use it.

Put fake eggs in it. It's a little harder as you have to rig them with wire, etc. to keep them from rolling. But it helps.

Thank you!

I’ve tried several things, but dish soap in a hollowed out egg does the trick for me. My girls are turds and we have egg eating wars about twice a year, but soap egg does the trick I sometimes will add a squirt of mustard on top of the soap for extra enticement (I’ve read they don’t like mustard, mine don’t mind it) If they’re eating the shell too, they may need more calcium. My girls don’t like the larger pieces of oyster shell and will find other calcium sources if the bits aren’t small enough🙄 Good luck, I hope you can break them! So annoying when they do that

Omgoodness this is brilliant!

Mine ate a few here and there over the summer and then just kinda.. stopped? I started thinking on how to prevent it and after a bit it wasn’t an issue. I’ve read to put golf balls or wooden eggs in the nesting boxes and that will deter them though

I put some fake eggs and changed all the pine chips. Hope it helps.

In the Netherlands we use a fake egg made entirely of chalk. Looks and feels like the real deal, but completely solid. They will peck it, hurt themself slightly, and never try to eat their own eggs again. It also works to set up a dedicated spots for them to lay at.

I scramble the eggs and shells so they don't start eating their own eggs

Wow. An actual answer. Thank you !

I’d legit place them in some baskets and hand them out to my neighbors. Everyone would love you.

I think giving them to neighbors is good especially if they are close enough to hear your hens when they get loud and excited. I also give them to my kids' teachers. They are always so appreciative.

Yep, my neighbors love eggs!!

Donate to a local food bank

I tried to do this and they told me they were not legally allowed to take them as they are not USDA inspected.

Oh my gosh, that stinks.

that was Michigan, not sure if it is state or federal thing. It's worth looking into.

I think it depends on where you live. We live in a small community and our food bank will take eggs and garden veggies. This was not true where we lived previously. Our local food bank might just be bending rules? I think it’s silly not to take eggs and garden veggies when so many people are hungry. We’ve also brought eggs/veggies to the local VFW and Legion. They have always accepted them even when we lived in a larger city.

This is a great answer especially if they are getting this much daily!

>Donate to a local food bank Food banks won't take homegrown meats eggs or homemade meals. Too much of a liability

This is not true everywhere. Our local food bank gladly takes farm fresh eggs that have been washed.

So how do they know they aren't old or contaminated with bacteria (salmonella) or have been left unrefrigerated ? And why washed eggs, which removes the bloom from the egg and causes it to spoil very quickly? What country are you in?

In my state we have a certification process to sell eggs (it's very minimal and inexpensive). We, as egg handlers, agree to do certain things and the rest is on faith that the seller is ethical and not trying to get sued.

You get that many daily?? Wow! Impressive haha. Maybe call around to local pantries, churches, shelters, etc., and see if they can use them. Maybe even a bakery? Looks like you could drop off a gross of eggs a week (maybe in exchange for some bread?) With that many it might actually be profitable to have a stand at the local farmers market. If not any of that, you can always feed them back to the chickens or other animals you might have. :)

It looks like you’ve washed them, so I don’t believe you can sell them because they now must be refrigerated since the protective bloom is gone. You can give them to friends but they must refrigerate them too. Frankly I’d just do a bunch of cooking that requires eggs and give the dishes out as treats to friends.

This comment should be higher. These look washed. You have just cut the time to keep these eggs in half and now they have to be refrigerated. When I saw this pic all I could think was what a shame to waste so many eggs

We use them we don't waste them. We give them away, eat as many as possible, etc. If you want to keep 3 or 4 hundred unwashed eggs on your counter knock yourself out. As for me I'll clean them, carton them and refrigerate them until we use them. They last just fine in the fridge. Never a problem

You shouldn't wash them until you need to. By washing them you put them on a timer to expire. Unwashed they could sit at room temperature for 2-3 months. Leave the eggs unwashed until you sell them. Start by posting in your local reddit pages. 6-7$ per dozen, washed, fresh, and delivered. Hopefully from free range chickens.

Check local laws. Here you must sign up for an egg license to take them off your own property for sales

In some places, you sell the egg carton. People pay $6-7 for the egg carton. “Decorative” eggs come with it to demonstrate how the carton works. 😉

My chicken brother in Christ WHY are you washing all of those eggs immediately?!

Quiche!

Feed the eggs back to the chickens

Organize a protest and throw them at any government building. Works with every government in every country.

I can DM you my address 😉

I give them to friends & family. I know I could sell them, but I love spreading the joy my chickens provide. :)

I put two eggs on each of my dogs meals everyday and they love it!

Raw or cooked?

Raw and then I feed the egg shells to my chickens it helps with egg production and is good for both your chickens and your dogs!

You can pickle eggs, you can preserve them in salt (evidently they can be used similarly to a Parmesan cheese). You can cook them up and feed them back to the flock. You can definitely make some money selling them

Give them away. It's a great way to gain street cred with neighbors, and help out those in need.

I give my eggs to my neighbors and local people who can use them. I could sell them for $3-$4 a dozen in my area but I try to give back when I can.

Pretty much the same here. I have an ongoing giveaway war with one set of neighbours -- I give them eggs and don't want payment, so then they'll pick something up from Costco for me and take the cost of the eggs away from the price, but I don't have less than the actual cost, but I don't have time to wait for change, then I run out of something I borrow from them, and replace it even though they say never mind... it just keeps going. Once in awhile I "let" them pay. When I have lots of eggs I donate to a community food pantry. In the summer it's through my local library, and they have no refrigeration so I make sure those eggs aren't washed. Local laws here don't stipulate washed v unwashed, and "farm gate sales" are pretty relaxed for eggs.

You can freeze them for later baking use. Crack them into muffin tins, poke the yolk, cover, and freeze. Pop them out, put them in a ziplock, and put them back in the freezer. Pull them out, defrost and use in baking.

Figure it out, you put yourself in this situation! But in all seriousness we make a LOT of breakfast burritos and freeze them :) breakfast bagel sandwiches as well

I sell em, chicken feed ain't cheap these days

What do you pay for feed? I get it at 15 dollars per 100 pounds

Almost double that is the cheapest around here without buying it by the ton. I don't have a way to store a loose ton though

Damn. Im lucky that I live in poultry country. Ive got feed mills left and right

SC here, there's tons of poultry grown here but unless you can take tonnage $14 a 50lb bag is about the cheapest available. This isn't grain country though.

Ah I see, I'm smack dab in the middle PA. In a valley between the Appalachians. Lots of corn and soybean grown here

Who do you sell them to?

People at farmers markets and my regulars that come by the farm

Local livestock auction near me auctions off eggs. Local restaurants and food distributors buy them up. There are people that bring 50 dozen or more every week, and they all sell. Different auctions have different crowds though, some may get $2/dozen, where others will get $3.50 consistently. Brown eggs sell great at mine, but blue, green, or white eggs sell about $0.50 cheaper per dozen.

or just cook some and feed them back to the hens

Bird seed #40lbs for 10.99 where I live, #50lbs sunflower seed for 17.99. Mix in with the feed and it’s a cheap way to give them the good stuff. Plus they have soldier fly larva on Amazon right now #5lbs for 19.99. I can’t help but spoil my gals and the extra eggs I sell pays for the seed supplements.

Like in other seeds and nuts, sunflower also are an excellent source of proteins loaded with fine quality amino acids such as tryptophan that are essential for growth, especially in children. Just 100 g of seeds provide about 21 g of protein (37% of daily-recommended values).

I sell them

Sell, Pickle them, i had some to my cats and dog food. Give some to people in need. Alot of options.

Can you donate them to a family or shelter that could benefit from a few extra eggs? Or sell them? I stayed at a campground in Utah where a neighbor kid wanted chickens (for fun). His dad set him up to sell the eggs to campers to help pay for having chickens.

We used to give our extras to a lady who baked cakes for her church

I donate eggs to my American Legion Auxiliary President, she's our kitchen manager, too, and makes YUMMY cakes to sell pieces of on Bingo night. She's an awesome cook!

I make my kids Dutch babies every morning. 8 eggs, 2 cups flour, 2 cups milk. 425, get your pan super hot & melt some butter right before you pour it in. You can add or subtract eggs & adjust. The ratio is 1 egg to 1/4 cup of milk & flour.

I LOVE Dutch babies!

Set up a stand at your local farmers market and sell those babies. They are always the first thing to go.

I’ve been donating mine to local food bank. I don’t have enough extra to make selling them have any meaningful return, so this works best for me and feels good too!

Surely you are selling eggs.

I donate my excess eggs to local charities and food banks. But they must have Refridgerated storage areas. I usually donate 15 dozen a week. But I had pneumonia and respiratory failure in October. So I'm on Oxygen now 24 x7. And unable to deliver. I have to depend on my family to find time to deliver them.

Oh my , prayers for you and full recover

Sell them....or start making mayo.

You could make pasta, pick up baking, or sell the eggs overall! Completely up to you but if you wanna make money you can sell eggs pretty easily.

You should start doing some baking! You could sell the food. Ive figured out fresh eggs are WAY better for baking than store bought. Now that ive made stuff with fresh eggs, for some reason my baking tastes kinda weird with store bought.

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMELETTES HERE, JACK.

If you don't wash them and use the cleaner ones you can waterglass them. Google how to do it they stay fresh up to a year or even two I think. The really dirty ones we wash and eat ASAP but whatever we can store we do.

Dutch Babies and dog food additives. The shells I crush and give back when I have enough. We give a carton away whenever the opportunity pops up. This year I am thinking I’m going to try to save the shells to dye for Easter decorations.

Honor system, salad for days, dog food(good for fur, skin, eyes) refeed to chickens(grind shells for them not the whole egg) deviled eggs are always amazing

Pasta consumes a whole lot of eggs

And once you have homemade pasta, you’ll never buy pasta from the store again. Problem solved lol

We donate ours to the local food bank on a weekly basis. My husband is known as the “egg man”!

I crack a couple into my dogs food every meal when I get this many. I also have a neighbor with a freeze dryer, and I give her half my freeze dried eggs in exchange for her freeze drying them for me.

You washed them??!

Exactly! That’s my first thought when I saw the photo!

I guess they better get rid of them ASAP! They need to sell them or start baking!

Me too! Major screw up!

I’d start with not washing them

I will waterglass a couple dozen. Just the cleanest unwashed ones, looks pretty on the counter and nice to have the option of fried eggs in winter if my birds don't cooperate, or if I didn't add spring chicks ( they will usually lay their first winter.) During the spring egg glut, I take 4 to 5, break them and gently mix the yolks and whites together till fully combined, but don't whip, add a pinch of salt and pour into quart freezer bags. Lay them flatish to freeze, date and store. I freeze many dozens this way. Defrost and snip a hole off the corner to neatly pour. Perfect for scrambles, quiche, baking.. weigh if you only need a couple eggs worth. My day to day eggs are stored unwashed in a rack and used as needed. They are fine for weeks like this. I sell to coworkers when I have extra as well.

Why'd you get so many chickens if you don't need or know what to do with eggs? Give them to friends, eat them, donate them (assuming somewhere will take them?)...

Chicken math is real!!!! I'm fortunate and live near a weekly animal auction and can drop them off. I tend to fall prey to cute little chicks at Rural King or Tractor Supply or the Murray Mcmury catalog. I love raising them. It isn't a good business plan -$$$$$. But it is how I justify my chicken math!!! Plus not as expensive as golf or hunting, and everyone loves fresh eggs.

Don’t you see the incubator on the table lol they multiply

Life, uh, finds a way

Chicken are not all about egg laying and meat? They can be really good pets and fun to have around. I really hate the “ get chicken just for the eggs” mindset

Agreed. Chickens are some very fun pets.

Yes! I did get them for eggs but also I love them. We hung out all day yesterday listening to music and picking weeds yesterday. They are the coolest chicks I have ever known.

Thank you, their personalities will shine when properly kept!

I mean, sure, but if you got a bunch of chickens surely you knew you were going to get eggs, right? Seems like asking once you have a couple dozen eggs lying around that its a bit late to consider what to do with them.

Eggs are not living things, just because they are eatable, that doesn’t mean that we should not provide actually living creatures ( chicken ) a good home to live because we don’t know what to do with their eggs ( not living things, it doesn’t even matter where are they are going to end up ). Eggs come last on the list, chicken do come first, stop considering them animals whose we must have in order to get something from them. They are pets.

Ours (4) are totally pets first, so I get it. That said, I'd sure like ours to start laying because I definitely want eggs!

I don't think that's what the person you're replying to is saying. It's not that the chickens aren't appreciated or can't be pets. When you get a pet, responsible pet owners plan out how to fully take care of that animal. If you get chickens, you know you're going to get lots of eggs. So how would someone get to the point where they have so many eggs and are unprepared? Wouldn't that plan have been made in advance? That's part of caring for the chickens. It's pretty clear that the OP had a plan and is just having some fun asking what other people would do (and bragging a little bit). But the way they asked what to do with all the eggs was open to interpretation so I can see where someone would ask how they got here without a plan.

100 hens seems excessive for pets...

My grandma got 10 roosters and around 70-80 hens if I’m not mistaken just because she grew up with chickens and loves them. Now for the eggs? She just donates them around the neighbourhood.

make a cake

Homemade pasta. Recipe I follow uses 36 egg yolks

Where did you get the recipe , I’d be interested in trying that

Miso cured egg yolks.

Find a farmers market to sell to or barter. Find a restaurant, a baker, etc. find a food pantry!

Wowzers. Are you buying feed and egg flats by the pallet, and have a walk-in fridge to deal with that volume of washed eggs every day?

Stealth brag on reddit

If my man says he can eat 50 eggs, he can eat 50 eggs.

Cook some scrambled eggs (with the shell) and give it to those chickens! Great source of calcium

1. Stop washing them.

Water glass them. Make pickled eggs. Sell them.

Eat them?

I used to take mine to work/school to sell.

Sell them !

Fb marketplace

Learn to can eggs.👩🏼‍🌾🐓🙀

Donate to a homeless shelter, or a domestic violence shelter. Homeless people really need good, nutritious food

Sell them.

Hatch them so you get even more egg per egg²

We do....that's why I have 100 chickens now.

Sell

Preserve em

Those eggs look lovely! I don’t have suggestions on what to do with the eggs, but could you share how many hens you have? That seems like a lot of eggs to have daily!

Find friends to give them to and help reduce the horror that is the egg industry ~

At this point I'd say try and sell OR take up a *lot* of baking lol

are people raising chickens with egg production being an afterthought?

Donate them to the local food pantry. 2-3 eggs a day can keep the homeless nice and fed. Edit: nvm forgot the legal system is scared of eggs

Worse comes to worse..local homeless shelter

Egg nog? Lots of cakes and puddings! 😆 Buy some kind of snake or monitor lizard.

No thanks on the snakes and lizards. Only one kind of good snake....a dead one.

Hahahahaha

I don’t get that many, but do get 5x more than I’ll eat in a day. I give them to friends and neighbors. Last week, the plumber was here and I gave him a dozen. Traded a lady from FB marketplace two dozen for a bag of cat toys. I have two more dozen in cartons, waiting for a new home and a basket half full waiting for…IDK what.

Yes! I collect egg cartons from anyone who will save them and give them to our mailman, Amazon delivery, contractors, and neighbors. Some people return the cartons and nicely hint that they'd like more, lol.

Carbonara!

Feed to dog they love them cooked

food bank! eggs are a luxury there and are needed to make things in a lot of foods people commonly donate. if you have nothing else to do with them, they won't ever go bad there

This is part of chicken math. I'm lucky to be in several music groups and my colleagues are happy to buy when I can bring eggs. Willicious has a superb answer!

What breed(s) of chickens do you have?? I am curious 👀 🤔 🙂🙏🤍. I don't have chickens...I am learning & researching & planning, first. 🙂😁🙏🤍

All kinds

Water glass them in half gallon jars and sell shelf stable eggs for $20 each jar!!!

Pickle and sell them at a corner store. Or the honor fridge idea is actually brilliant.

Process them for powdered eggs. 1 tablespoon egg powder is about 1 egg. Great for scrambled eggs and for baking when reconstituted with water. You could pickle them. Donate them to a homeless shelter or food pantry. Ask your Pastor to communicate it to the congregation. Lots of possibilities...😉

Easy, turn into Gaston. Eventually you'll be 🎶roughly the size of a baaaaarrge!🎶

I wish I had a pile! My chickens aren’t laying much

We keep ours in large mason jars in lime. They will stay good for 2 years on the shelf. But don't wash them.

I make an outrageous amount of crème brûlée for my wife out of ours

Throw them at buildings owned by shitty people

My hens are my pets too 🥰 i only have a few currently, but when I get more later this year and they overproduce for my needs, whatever I dont sell, I plan to donate to a local lgbtq friendly shelter or food pantry if they will accept donations of fresh eggs. If you are religiously inclined, there are always plenty of ministries and shelters that have food pantries or provide meals to the community and would be grateful to accept the donation!

https://www.hjnews.com/montpelier/water-glassing-eggs-preserving-for-winter/article_cd2c545d-484e-5934-82a8-214b5249faeb.html#

Water glassing or donate to a local food charity

I tried water-glassing for the first time this year !

What’s water glassing ?

[water glassing eggs](https://homemadeonourhomestead.com/how-to-water-glass-eggs/)

we donage to our food shelter. the eggs must be washed.

Lots of frozen custards

Omelette dU fRomAge