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I have spoken with people who 'say' they want 'free-range' and hormone-free. Yet at market they prefer to buy eggs from caged-hens whose layer-feed is loaded with estrogen. I see the customers doing it, I see the vendors, I know the differences between how each vendors is operating. What they say they want, is not what they buy. I have even lowered my prices, lower prices do not overcome the look of clean uniform eggs. |
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![]() I keep about a dozen or so hens. I keep the laying boxes filled with wood shavings I get at the local feed store. The hens have a fenced pasture but all come back to the hen house to lay. We have all colors off eggs also. I don't sell them, just supply for my family and one other who have financial needs. I don't wash them either. I store mine in a wire basket in the fridge. I've never had an egg go bad and I've been doing this since I was a kid. It's the same way Grandma did it. I give any cracked eggs to the dogs and they love them. Hens are easy to keep and give something back...even if on occasion it has poop on it.
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![]() I learned a lot off this thread. To me leaving an egg out of the refrigerator for more than an hour was inconceivable! When I was in Spain and Ukraine I saw eggs in the market sitting out and thought they were crazy! But now I guess it's not so bad after all. That's very useful info to have since I'll be getting chickens soon!
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![]() I got 2 eggs today!
I saw one of the hens in the box...but the eggs are different colors. One off-white, one tan. Almost same size. Are they both from her? Or do they only lay one a day? (Dumb questions I know...I had been more researching coops and living conditions than practicalities!) The previous owner says they only lay in the one box, never in the other one. Edit: the eggs are quite different in color and even in shape. So one of the other hens must have laid too. yeah! |
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![]() if u coat them in mineral oil and put them in a cool dark place they will last as long as a year still tasting delicious! freash home grown are the best of course put them where they won't brake!!
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![]() Stringer6 your right !
You first put plastic or latex gloves on you don't want to touch the eggs with your hands. You then completely coat the eggs, you want to keep any air from getting to them. Then put them back into the egg carton. You store them in a cool dark place. They should last over a year. This will work with store bought eggs to. |
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![]() I still don't know how you guys train your chooks to lay their eggs in the fridge in the first place!
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When I had my first flock of chickens, I had several different kinds, including some Auraconas, some of which laid an olive drab (green) egg, some laid a blue egg, and some laid a "pink" egg, which wasn't that much different than some of the "brown" eggs. At that time, I knew the hens well enough to know exactly who laid an egg that day just by examining the eggs. Maybe not 100% accurate every day but I was darned close. Oh, they all had names, too. I was anal enough at the time that I kept a journal with all the hens' names, the dates, who laid and who didn't, kept a laying average for each hen and the group as a whole, and also kept track of the inputs such as oyster shell and grain / mash that I bought for them. It was something I really enjoyed. I didn't have them penned up quite the same as some do. I had a "hen house" that was maybe 4' wide by 8' long that had the nesting boxes in it and some roosts for them as well as a couple of feeders and waterers. I also had a door that I opened for them in the daytime that let them out into an area of about 1/2 acre that was fenced in with 3' high chicken wire fence. And for 20 or so chickens, they were pretty contented. I didn't often have them flying over the fence but it wasn't usually a big deal if one of them did. Fast forward about 30 years... I've just recently seen an Amish farm where they're doing something kinda like that on a larger scale. They have several hundred chickens and several acres of ground fenced in (with much higher and more substantial fencing) and their acreage divided up so that they can move the chickens from pasture to pasture along with a portable hen house. I like that kind of setup. I like the idea that the chickens are free to come and go from the hen house as they please. They can eat as much or as little of the grain or oyster shell as they feel like. They can get out in the sun, chase bugs, take dust baths, and get fooled by that ol' rooster that's calling to them about the latest and greatest morsel of food he's found for them only because he wants a piece of... oh, never mind. ![]() FWIW, I always had a rooster with the hens. It always seemed more natural for them to have that as a part of their lives. And it is indeed necessary if one intends to have fertile eggs. ![]() Brian |
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![]() MEN many years ago did a test on this very thing. They determined that eggs laid by chickens that had a rooster in the hen house and were left unwashed (with the bloom on), would keep 6 months unrefrigerated. I live in the Deep South, do not refrigerate eggs and seldom have a bad one.
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It just seems right that a few should have been her own. Oh well. Maybe next time. I wonder if I'll still feel guilty about this when I make her into soup? |
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![]() You might be surprised to learn how long eggs sit unrefrigerated in the back of supermrkets before they are put out and are still legally fresh.
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![]() my Gmother used to dip eggs in waterglass(sodium silicate) and place them in a crock alternating layers of straw and eggs then stored them in the cellar
I just got my first bad egg from one of our hens I took it out and cracked it into a bowl it appeared moldy inside |
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![]() I have eaten eggs out of the refrigerator 4-6 weeks after collecting. I have heard that the mineral oil technique will keep them 6-8 months.
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![]() My experience with store bought unrefrigerated eggs is that some how fruit flies get into to them and they spoil. I buy when they are cheap the thin shelled jumbo size for my dogs. I quit eating eggs myself due to health reasons.
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