I'm so glad I found this thread. Thank you for starting. My questions about giving the shells to the chickens and reusing the lime water were answered in the posts.
I tried preserving with this method last year when my hens were laying way more than we could eat. We had been selling our extra eggs but we always ended up buying eggs during the winter which I didn't like. Feeding chickens and buying eggs just seemed wrong.
My 15 layers were able to keep us in eggs until mid December but that came to a halt quickly. We still get 2 or three a day but we eat more than that. Its now over halfway through Jan '24 and we have finished off our first half gallon jar(about 15 eggs per jar) and haven't had a bad one yet. These eggs were from early August 2023, so about 5 months old. A little runnier and the yolks not as firm as others have said. However, they still taste much better than store bought and I know where they came from.
I will be doing this again this year but saving earlier and not selling extra eggs. The experiment in small scale egg selling proved not profitable and maybe not breaking even. Every extra egg will go in the jar for winter scrambles and omelets.
I doubt we will have any left to check for longevity, but if we do I will report back.
I tried preserving with this method last year when my hens were laying way more than we could eat. We had been selling our extra eggs but we always ended up buying eggs during the winter which I didn't like. Feeding chickens and buying eggs just seemed wrong.
My 15 layers were able to keep us in eggs until mid December but that came to a halt quickly. We still get 2 or three a day but we eat more than that. Its now over halfway through Jan '24 and we have finished off our first half gallon jar(about 15 eggs per jar) and haven't had a bad one yet. These eggs were from early August 2023, so about 5 months old. A little runnier and the yolks not as firm as others have said. However, they still taste much better than store bought and I know where they came from.
I will be doing this again this year but saving earlier and not selling extra eggs. The experiment in small scale egg selling proved not profitable and maybe not breaking even. Every extra egg will go in the jar for winter scrambles and omelets.
I doubt we will have any left to check for longevity, but if we do I will report back.
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