Fresh Eggs
 

Our chickens are laying almost 2 dozen eggs every day! We are scrambling them for the dogs, too! And experimenting with recipes that require lots of eggs. I made creme brulee yesterday from a recipe on FoodNetwork! I recently read a post about freezing the eggs...gonna try it. Any recipes out there for lots of eggs...

You can also water glass them. Check out youtube on that. Also we give several people eggs on a weekly basis. So many people are hurting and a simple carton of eggs just may be the blessing they need to carry them. Currently we get about 8 eggs a day. Are you fermenting their feed? It's healthier for the chickens and makes the feed go considerably further.
One of our favorite ways to use up eggs is a quiche! Have you made them? Please let me know if you want a simple recipe. I can PM you for that:)
Have a beautiful day.

Make lots of Impossible pies in a blender. The recipe calls for 4 but I always use 5. It's sort of like a custard.

I've been freezing eggs in silicon muffin cups and then popping them out and transferring them to freezer bags for some time now. I break the yolks before freezing because when I didn't they seemed to almost be cooked when thawed (just the top of the yolks). I checked egg prices here in my small home town yesterday and they are going for $3+/doz.depending on the grade. Thank God my daughter's hens are laying a lot. Frozen eggs can be used for scrambled, omelettes and any baking recipe.

Mother had chickens on the farm and every time I visited, she had 3 or 4 dozen eggs ready for me to take home. The honest truth: I didn’t buy eggs for the first 40 years of our married life.

How can you eat so many eggs without your cholesterol building up? I hope you get it checked periodically.

FYI: in case you can't get fresh eggs, I was told by a Walmart buyer that Walmart has contracted Egglands Best Cage Free Brown eggs for their Market Place eggs. Cage free isn't much better then caged to a chicken. Free Range is the most freedom allowed to laying chickens and doesn't mean much more unless from a small independent egg seller.

It's actually not the cholesterol in food that affects your blood cholesterol, so much as the saturated fat. I eat very little meat so I feel OK about eating an egg or two every other day. Quote from Mayo Clinic - "Most healthy people can eat up to seven eggs a week without increasing their risk of heart disease. Some studies have shown that this level of egg consumption might even help prevent certain types of stroke and a serious eye condition called macular degeneration that can lead to blindness"

I also get fresh eggs from my landlord's chickens - he is up to 6 hens now and his family doesn't eat that many, so I have plenty.

When I had hens and the eggs got a head of me I would make pickled eggs.

I've heard the same. Plus cholesterol levels are somewhat a function of your own metabolism and your genetics and not always what you eat. I know this is contrary to what your doctor is probably telling you, but there are studies linking having your cholesterol too low to low brain function, as in developing dementia and alzheimers. Not that you should have very high cholesterol but keeping it too low may be bad in other ways.

Thanks for all the responses. We had 16 chicks hatch yesterday! Hubby cares for the animals around here, and he says that we don't need to preserve the eggs because they lay all year in our climate. We give them away to friends and family. It is mandatory for visitors to leave with eggs, lol, and our mail carrier greatly appreciates them. I searched impossible pie but came up empty. I was mainly looking for recipes to change it up around here.

Impossible pie recipes: ( we like the cheeseburger pie)

https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes...sy-pie-recipes

Does anyone use other things for substitutes for eggs? What have been your success?

Real mayonnaise in baked goods instead of regular eggs works for me. I always have mayonnaise in the pantry.

Be careful. One of my friends has about 100 chickens and she normally lets them go outside but there is an alert out here because Bird Flu is present. So she has to keep her chickens inside their barn and be careful about changing shoes etc when she goes in to collect eggs. No visitors allowed in the hen house at this point. She is lucky that they also used to have about 100 milking cows so has plenty of room inside for the hens.

I posted about freezing the eggs recently. When we had our chickens, I was giving away my eggs to co-workers on a weekly basis & they loved them. It's really hard to go from fresh eggs to store bought ones. The store bought ones yellow is so pale & the shells are so thin & they don't have much taste (sort of like fresh tomatoes & store bought tomatoes).
Does anyone else out there have snake problems like we had when we were keeping our chickens? What did you do to avoid the snakes eating the eggs? We put out the ceramic eggs but that only took care of a few snakes. I think once they got wind that they were fake, they passed the word around & left the ceramics alone. ;)

I have a question for all you chicken people — Is it possible to peel a hard boiled egg made from fresh eggs? Do you have any tricks?

I have heard that any egg cooked in a insta-pot is really easy to peel so if you have one of those, try it.

Purple Pansies and Sewingpup: I currently have 5 chickens . I cook fresh eggs in an Instant Pot and they do peel easily. Even after a few days in the refrigerator, they still peel easily. Now every once in a while I get an egg that won't peel without ripping the white but I figure it must just be a "fluke" as it doesn't happen often. LOL Fresh eggs from a home flock have much harder shells than those we get in the store, and I think that has something to do with how they peel.
My method: 1 cup water in bottom of pot, use basket or rack and place any number of eggs up to 2 dozen in the pot, cook on high for 5 minutes, then 5 minutes "cool down", release steam, immediately put eggs in bowl of ice water for about 5 to 10 min. and they are ready to go. My eggs vary in size from medium to ex large and they are all cooked perfect.

The shells are thicker. We watched a clip on America's Funniest Videos we named, "Tap, tap, blow." Didn't work on our fresh eggs! The idea is to remove small amount of shell at top (for blow hole), then, tap, tap, tap on bottom before blowing out the boiled egg.

I agree. The Instant Pot is the way to go. On days when I decide I am to lazy to do that and use a pot in the stove I always regret it.

also I just read something in preserving eggs by “glassing them” in case anyone knows about that.

I buy Pasture Raised eggs. My research for whatever it is worth tells mw they are better for the chickens than even free range. And dark yellow almost orange yolks. And agree about needing some cholesterol Jan the body for brain. Function.

My DD saw a video on this, and did it, we were laughing so hard….especially when I tried it! Eventually I succeeded but not easily, and you wouldn’t want someone else “shelling” your egg for you.

I've had chickens most of my adult life. A couple of years ago, I bought 25 chicks from McMurray's to freshen up my flock of 10-12 older hens. I was expecting to give half of the new chicks to my dau, but she backed out,so I ended up with 35 chickens. We had several roosters and last spring all of those new hens went broody and started hatching even more chicks. We now have about 60+chickens!!! We've been eating eggs, giving away eggs, feeding them to our dogs, selling them...you name it. We've had to cull some roosters and that meat feeds the dogs too. My dau has found an organization that will take our eggs as a donation to a homeless shelter. I'm still waiting on that.

we have just six Easter Eggers who theoretically lay every other day, although occasionally they are more prompt than that.

I date the eggs with a pencil when I pick them up and do the oldest for hard boiled for the dogs breakfast. Steam 20 minutes. Never a problem peeling.
If production gets ahead of us I gift a basket to the next door neighbor, and then scramble some for the girls back to them. Saves of chicken feed, we feed all kinds of leftovers to them.

I have been making Creme Brulee! I have changed vanilla extract to almond, strawberry, or raspberry extract. I even added 2 T cocoa, which made it seem like chocolate pudding. It's super easy.
1 ½ C Half n Half

3 egg yolks

½ C Splenda

1 t vanilla

Heat half n half and vanilla to just before boiling.

Beat egg yolks and Splenda in a bowl.

Temper hot liquid into eggs.

Pour into individual ramekins placed on pan.

Pour hot water to halfway up outsides of ramekins.

Bake 30 minutes, turning halfway.
350°

Funny thing chickens use to be free ranged, meaning they roamed around and would eat anything they came across. Someone decided it was best for everyone to cage them and feed them chicken feed. Now they sing the praises of free range again. I guess no one remembers that.