For a while I was selling some eggs and that was keeping their numbers down in my refrigerator..but egg prices have gone down again and I got tired of delivering eggs to people so they have been piling up a good bit in the fridge and today I collected these beautiful eggs along with a dozen more of the small bantam eggs and there just wasn't anywhere to put them. Time to do something with these eggs before they go bad and just have to be thrown out. With all the animals I have to feed, there really is no excuse for throwing out eggs. But I started with the dozen or so fresh bantam eggs I had and made Phil some pickled eggs. I haven't made any for a while so I know he is going to like these. It is just the standard recipe:
3 Tablespoons sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pickling spice
2 cups vinegar
2/3 cup water
Boil this for a few minutes and pour through a strainer over boiled eggs.
So that got rid of a dozen eggs but there were at least ten dozen more in the refrigerator.....so I boiled a pan full, then another very large pan full and peeled, and peeled then cut them up a bit. I fed a plate full to the cats outside. They seemed very appreciative. Then I took two bowls out to the chickens and fed them. These chickens had never had eggs before but they seemed pretty happy and it didn't take them long to finish them. They were all running around snatching pieces from each other.
They don't get much variety here in the winter since I have no real good grass and weeds to pick for them.
I then, put the rest of the eggs I collected today in the fridge and we have almost 8 dozen....looks like I may need to do this again tomorrow.
We sell a few dozen a week to friends, but still end up with dozens. We like to scramble them and feed them to the dogs and the chickens - a dozen for the dogs, a dozen for the hens. Happily, we love eggs and eat them for one or two meals a day!
ReplyDeleteOh now scrambling would have been easier, lol, I should have thought of that.
DeleteI dry the shells, crush 'em, and feed them to our chickens too. They love them :D
ReplyDeleteI used to do this but my chickens never seemed to really notice and they don't seem to need any extra calcium, their eggs are fine, so I eventually stopped.
DeleteHi Becky! Eggs can be a blessing or a curse! I sold half of my flock last year because of too many eggs! The same with the ducks. Now, I have no eggs! But I did just get three new hens, so pretty soon we'll have eggs again. It's sad, but I am allergic to eggs! I love them but eating them upsets my tummy! So I just use what we need and give the rest away. So good to hear from you! I hope ya'll have a prosperous New Year! Blessings from Bama!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that is the way it works with us too. In order to keep eggs all year I have to have a bunch of chickens and that means some times of the year we are just going to have too many eggs.
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