What do you do with old eggs?

[lolita117]

I notice some people don't want to buy my eggs, but would rather me give them away. I sell my eggs for a very small price of $1.50 and feel that if you don't want to pay that, my dogs and chickens will enjoy my eggs. So when eggs rack up... what do you do with them? I have decided to scramble eggs and feed them back to my chickens and dogs. And I bake the egg shells and crush them.

Usually, I wait until I have 6 or more dozen eggs so I can bake a big batch of shells, but I only scramble 2 dozen at a time (no more skillet room). I also bag and freeze the scrambled eggs in the batches. I use cooking oil to keep the eggs from not sticking instead of butter or margarine and I don't add salt or anything to the eggs.



I bake the shell at 375 for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes I shut the oven off but leave in the eggshells in there until I'm ready to crush them. I bag the 6 dozen crushed eggshells and freeze them until I need to use them. The quart size bag in this picture has 6 dozen crushed eggshells in it.



My girls LOVE the scrambled eggs and I've notice they really like the crushed eggshells too. I almost have to feed the eggshells as a treat because they eat it so quick. I hope I gave you some idea, instead of throwing away eggs!

 

[sourland]

Extra eggs have always been cooked for my dogs.

 

[lolita117]

I give my dogs raw eggs everyday but even though I'm feeding 6-10 raw eggs out to them almost everyday (I have 7 dogs) I still rack up on the eggs, so they get scrambled treats. I don't give my hens raw eggs but they love cooked ones. I also run out of frig room and scrambled eggs in the freezer saves frig room

 

[sourland]

There may be a problem with feeding raw eggs to dogs. Something in the egg whites can interfere with the absorption of biotin from the diet. I'm not sure how many eggs need be fed to have negative effects. I have always fed hard boiled eggs to my dogs.

 

[TallChickMagnet]

Just a question, because I am very new at this, but as I was surfing the net I thought that I read that you are not supose to let your birds eat the eggs. Is this true, and why bake the shells?

 

[lolita117]

Well they've been eating them for over a year now and I have alot of friends who feed to 2 raw eggs to their dogs everyday. Its actually good for their coats. People eat raw eggs, and dogs eat just about anything. I don't think raw eggs are going to hurt a dog when they eat raw wild meats and dead things, rotten things.

Everybody always have different opinions on what dogs can have, even saying they can't eat meat, table scraps, and even bones? Dogs were once wild, and some still are. They eat wild goose and turkey eggs too. I know there are certain things dogs can't have, but those things are usually things they aren't found in the wild (chocolate) or a dog normally wouldn't eat it in its raw form (like onions). My dogs have ate scraps (including cooked onion), raw meats of all kinds, rotten meats from deer carcasses (guts and all) and other critters, and bones, bones, and more bones of all animals raw and cooked -even chicken bones. I've had dogs my whole life and I've never had a dog "choke on a chicken bone." My dogs are healthy and happy. Dog food is probably one of the unhealthiest things dogs can eat (most grocery store brands, anyways). Oh my dogs also eat raw cucumbers and squash out of the garden. (They do that on their own).

There may be a problem with feeding raw eggs to dogs. Something in the egg whites can interfere with the absorption of biotin from the diet. I'm not sure how many eggs need be fed to have negative effects. I have always fed hard boiled eggs to my dogs.

 

[laura877]

Can you put a sign out front and sell your eggs? Our neighbor puts all her eggs in carton in a cooler by her door. In thesummer her has something cold in there to keep them cold and in the late fall something warm. Everyone that comes to her dorr is on the honor system. She has a jar in the cooler and everyone puts their money in and take sout the eggs. Can you give extra eggs to a food bank or pantry?

 

[KDK1]

Avidin is a protein in egg whites, that when combined with biotin, makes it unavailable. But there is enough biotin found in egg yolks that they essentially cancel each other out. A healthy dog of average weight would have to consume a dozen RAW egg whites (without the yolks) a day to have any adverse reactions.

There may be a problem with feeding raw eggs to dogs. Something in the egg whites can interfere with the absorption of biotin from the diet. I'm not sure how many eggs need be fed to have negative effects. I have always fed hard boiled eggs to my dogs.

ETA... original topic--- I put an add on CL just to get rid of extra eggs and now I can't keep enough in stock to satisfy everybody. Just yesterday I had to take a couple out of our stash on the counter to complete a dozen for one of my customers.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Many food pantries cannot handle perishable foods such as eggs, but some can. I don't have one locally that can take eggs, but the homeless shelter in town are always glad to have them. Over the years we've donated more than 200 dozen. Eggs that are too old for us to sell (but not too old to eat), the ones that are too small, stained, or otherwise have poor shell quality. Anything that is still wholesome to consume, but not otherwise salable. They are always glad to have them.

 

[donrae]

Extra eggs here go to the dogs, the cats (the momma cats especially love them), or we give them to family or friends.

I feed my shells back to the girls, but I don't crush or bake them, just put the cracked shell in a bowl with the rest of the kitchen scraps and put it in the run.

There are egg-intensive recipes on the recipe section to help use up a lot of those eggs.