Ot: egg question.

JayinNY · Oct 1, 2012

I have about 40 hens, I couldent keep eggs as they sold so good, now nobody is buying them as much. Well I tried for the first time freezing them, book said to mix up the whole eggs add salt for scrambled eggs or sugar for use in baked goods. Anybody ever freeze eggs? And how do they taste when thawed out? Thanks, j

RayP(MI) · Oct 1, 2012

Pickled eggs?

old · Oct 1, 2012

Ya know how it is with eggs. You either have them or you do not and it seems when you have to many no one wants them but when you have just a few every body and there uncle wants them. Right now I can sell every one I get and then double that number but give me a month or 2 I may have a gross of eggs on hand but if kept cold they do last 6 plus months

JayinNY · Oct 1, 2012

Your are right old, next thing may be putting the hens in the freezer, one place here is getting $ $18.00 for 50# of nutrena layer pellets??? The feed Mill I go to is $10.50, darn chickens cost more to feed than the horses! Lol

Anonymous-0 · Oct 1, 2012

How to Store Fresh Chicken Eggs: Traditional and Modern Methods ...suite101.com › Home & Style › Green/Simple Living

This should help..however if you use the search engine there are a number of items on this subject.

Don"t try to freeze them in the shell or you will have a mess. Boom!.

old · Oct 1, 2012

Ya with the egg grains and the scratch it cost me around $40-50 a month and at $1.50 for a dozen eggs that does not add up but then what farmer do you know that can do more then break even if he is lucky

JayinNY · Oct 1, 2012

No. I dident freeze them in shell! I cracked them and stired them up. Put them in freezer containers. Just wonder how they taste after freezing?

JayinNY · Oct 1, 2012

I don't know very many, but I believe the most important thing in the world is agriculture, we can live without a computer, or a cell phone, ect but we can't live with out food. That's just my thoughts, some people dont agree with it.

37chief · Oct 1, 2012

With the price of feed I don't see how it pays to raise chickens, for eggs. I have a few chickens, and probably pay around five dollars a dozen for their eggs. Figure out how to powder your eggs. I ate a lot of powdered eggs, and powdered milk while serving in the Navy, in the 60's. Stan

old · Oct 1, 2012

Ah you mean like to city lady who was asked one day what she was going to do when they shut down all the farmers. She said heck I'll just go to the store and buy my milk and eggs not knowing that with out the farmer there was no milk or eggs but some people do not have a clue where food comes from. That is one reason I have 3 metal shelves full of can goods and I do the canning my self so I know what goes into each and every jar. May yet be that day when knowledge will take a person a lot farther down the road then any thing else will

old · Oct 1, 2012

Ah but in the navy you did as you had to to get by would you want to do that today unless you just plain had too??????????????? I know what it was like and been there and did not like the Navy food but then better then not eating either

Anonymous-0 · Oct 2, 2012

Butcher them chickens, buy your eggs, save money, and enjoy the freedom and fresh air............... Can't help you with freezing them...... Mine (12 at the time) were given away when the bird flu scare hit and they had to be kept under cover (at least a net) and the few customers I had commented that the eggs should be cheaper cause they may be dangerous.... 1st one to suggest that thought I was a real pr!ck when I said they were prolly right and busted the eggs in frt of them and closed the gate........

Teddy (punchie) · Oct 2, 2012

Wash and freeze in shell in a bag mix back into feed, as needed.

Pickled or can them sounds interesting.

Some people live with there head in the sand. Just go through life and have no clue. I often say look at there hands, no care to work and have no idea how to work. Most are self centered, knowing one thing and just bull**** there way. Sad and allot of the young kids are going to pay for this. Knowledge is going to be very important.

Traditional Farmer · Oct 2, 2012

Food is already becoming an issue in many parts of the World even in places like the Socilaist Mecca of
Spain I was watching a news report the other day that 20% of the population were getting their food from dumpsters.What'll they do when the dumpster food runs out?
Anyone in the country should be able to have a dozen or so laying hens and have to buy very little feed as chickens will eat a wide variety of things including lots of bugs and insects.The eggs from chickens raised outside on the ground are also much better tasting than the eggs from those caged layers.
You'd think that knowing how to feed yourself would be a basic education requirement but few know how these days if McDonald's closes they're finished.

Bob Bancroft · Oct 2, 2012

When the wife had chickens and was challenged with the aforementioned feast or famine- she studied, and experimented. Her best results came from- breaking open about 6 eggs into a bowl, adding a little salt, mixing them with a fork, then froze them in a freezer bag. They were fine fried, or used for baking. Any other method resulted in unpleasant consistencies- as in rubbery- mealy- chunks, etc.

36 Coupe · Oct 2, 2012

I see pickled eggs selling for 79 cents each in country stores.Thats the way to sell eggs.Eggs are trucked all over the country so few are fresh.I keep 4 hens now.Most people are too lazy to care for hens now.Store eggs can be called fresh for 30 days.When I kept more hens and sold eggs customers were not dependable.I made a lot of pickled eggs.A friend said that an egg should have the date it was laid penciled on it.He felt that eggs with a date would bring a better price.You cant beat the taste of a fresh egg from a hen that gets outdoors.The yolk will be bright yellow because hens eat a lot of grass when they can get it.You have to improve your selling skills.You need a good sign.Most signs I see are not legible.You have to account for feed costs.

TGIN · Oct 2, 2012

I makeup sausage and eggs on a biscuit and put in a freezer bag and put them in freezer for the microwave and they turn out fine . I dont know about freezing them raw . Find you a wholesaler . I have a friend that brings me 15 to 30 doz. at a time for $1.50 and then I sell them to my family and friends for $2.00 . kids get em free and I break even but get good eggs and helps him out . I have a walkin cooler so no problem to keep them .

Ultradog MN · Oct 2, 2012

I was on a submarine tender when I was in the Navy.
Subs would come to us for replenishment and repairs of all sorts.
When we were over seas we would get replenished ourselves about every 3 months.
I remember getting refrigerated eggs in big waxed cardboard cases with about 30 dozen eggs per case. We ate them every day for the whole 3 months before we got new ones and who knows how long they had been stored before we got them.
They looked/tasted just fine.
Because of that experience I have always been under the impression that eggs will last a long time if properly refrigerated.

mazemeister · Oct 2, 2012

we freeze them to use in baking. figure out how many eggs-whole, yolks, whites- your recipe calls for and freeze them in a ziploc bag.
cookies, quiche, key lime pies, etc...

haven't tried frozen/thawed just for fried or scrambled yet

Teddy (punchie) · Oct 2, 2012

Here in our town no farm animals. Yes sad One day we are going to be in real trouble, and when and if they come looking for food, Only one question let me see your hands?

Then they are going to get food or told to work all day for the food, there the field and here is what needs done. I can here it now but !!!! Well when you were make choices and looking down on people like the dumb farmer, here's your chance to prove your self worth.

There are a lot of good people but going to be hard to weed them out.

Dumpsters empty they will take it if they can, steal, kill and maybe worse.

Let pray it never comes to that!!!

Dell (WA) · Oct 2, 2012

Doggie........problem with long time refrigeration of raw eggs is the POROUS shell. Sucks the water outta the egg whites. You doubt? Check the AIR bubble inside. Learn how to "candle" the egg by holding it up to BRIGHT lite. Long time ago, you used to paint the shell with "water-glass" to seal the shell for long term storage in the basement cooler. Writing a date on the shell is good idea. ........chickenless Dell

Don-Wi · Oct 2, 2012

My parents sell eggs for $2.75/dozen large brown eggs. Can't keep the fridge full at that price. constantly selling out. They make decent money for a side hobby.

donovan from wisconsin

Ultradog MN · Oct 2, 2012

Makes sense to me Dell. That's probably why they used waxed boxes - to control dehydration.
I don't remember how the top of the boxes were sealed but probably air and moisture controlled to some extent.
When I was mess cooking we brought a couple of cases a day to the galley.

chevytaHOE5674 · Oct 2, 2012

(quoted from post at 12:23:48 10/02/12) My parents sell eggs for $2.75/dozen large brown eggs. Can't keep the fridge full at that price. constantly selling out. They make decent money for a side hobby.

donovan from wisconsin

We have about 60 laying hens and sell mixed brown/blue/white eggs for $3.00 a dozen and have trouble keeping enough for ourselves to eat at times. The chickens more than pay for their own feed.

Don-Wi · Oct 2, 2012

They've been slowly raising their prices a quarter at a time. Currently jumbo eggs are $3/dozen large whites from another guy are $2.50. I think pullet eggs are $1.

I get all the eggs I want, but I try not to eat their profits :wink:

Donovan from Wisconsin

Daryl in PA · Oct 2, 2012

I buy large whites or browns locally for $1.00/doz. Usually get 10 dozen at a time. Aldi's Supermarket, near where my wife works has large whites for .88/doz.

Don-Wi · Oct 2, 2012

You can get eggs that cheap here too, but even though the grocery is just a mile down the road, they still sell out in a matter of hours. A few people have commented on the raise in prices, but after my parents tell them how much the price of feed has gone up, they still pay it.

Most don't complain. If the few who do complain quit buying they'd still sell out.

We gotta finish up the new chicken coop so they can bring home another 20 that the other guy raised for them. These are some replacements from the dog in the coop back in March. They've already got the flock built up to about where it was before that happened by buying slightly older birds, some being 2 mo. old and some that were laying already. My parents got sick of always having to go to the door for the customers, so they put a mini fridge on the patio and use the honor system. Not too many problems so far, but they gotta figure out what they're gonna do in the winter months when it'll be too cold for eggs outside.

In a normal week, they'll make over $100 right now. If they ever do have too many eggs (last happend early this spring) they donate them to the food pantry and take the write off.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Royse · Oct 2, 2012

When I was mess cooking...

Gee, thanks for that memory!!

Rich_WI · Oct 2, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:37:37 10/02/12)

Not too many problems so far, but they gotta figure out what they're gonna do in the winter months when it'll be too cold for eggs outside.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Put a light bulb in the fridge. Its wasteful but works. A better solution would be to wire up a thermostat to a light bulb in a cooler or dead fridge to use as the "winter fridge".

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