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I sell farm fresh eggs from a roadside stand on end of drive. There is a golf course and a camp ground within 1000 ft. of my place. So besides my regular neighbor customers I sell lots to golfers and campers. After kids go back to school, campground slows down to a crawl. After October golf course closes for winter. When egg sales slow and I accumulate lots of eggs, I usually have a couple pigs I feed the extras to. Therein lies the problem. Right now I have 30 dozen extra eggs and no pigs.
I was talking to a lady from a neighboring town who sells eggs. I asked her what she does with the extras? She said she cooks them up and feeds them back to the chickens. But do not feed the shells to them. What do you all think about that? Think that would be ok to do? I thought it would tempt them to break and eat their own eggs in the nest. She said not if you don't feed them the shells.
 
Yes, I used to take them to food pantry. About 5 yrs ago they said they can no longer take farm fresh eggs. Only can take old store bought eggs. Go figure##
 
There's two things I recently learned when raising chickens, they love eating eggs &.... chicken! They reminded me of pigs in terms of what they eat. The one hen would perch on my knee waiting for a small hand out of the good deep fried chicken I used to get from the gas station. I miss those birds. They were a bunch of silly critters. Provided plenty of entertainment. When I find my pics, I'll have to post a few.

Mike

P.S. I don't remember what it was about the shells, but they won't eat them. They'll even break their own eggs & eat the contents, leaving the shells behind. So the shells went on the compost pile.
 
Advertise! Anyhow that's what I do. I have a couple flyers up in local stores (doesn't cost me anything), and also word of mouth around town. I sell around 12-15 dozen per week this way. Occasionally I'll have a glut during the summer, so I run a buy one get one free sale for a couple weeks. And they get the free one whether they want it or not! If that doesn't work I take them to a couple (large) families that are "less fortunate" that really appreciate them. All else fails, I take a couple dozen down to the barn and throw 'em at a big tree nearby, then wait and shoot the coons and possums that come to eat them. That is a rare occasion though. My local feed store buys eggs from customers and then re-sells them for a 50 cent profit. I take eggs to them occasionally and trade against my feed bill, which benefits both of us. You might consider a small add in your local paper, it won't cost much and it might very well help boost your business.

Do you sell on the honor system at your stand, or are you there all the time? I've considered doing something similar at home but just haven't quite figured out how to do it when I work a 40 hour week.

Mac
 
Got a rifle range nearby? At our local range they have 'egg shoots' twice a month. 22 cal, 15 eggs at 100 yds. Usually go through about 15 dozen each event.
Egg shoot
 
Yes, honer system. Works good. every time I check eggs against money it is right on. Once and a while I am even money ahead. I suppose they don't have correct change. Most people are honest and good. You just don't hear about them on the news.
 
I figured as much, but in this day and age you can't ever tell I guess. Then again, at least for me, it isn't like I'm getting rich from eggs. At $2/dz I make about 75 cents profit. But at least they pay for their feed, so that's a plus. I may build a stand over the winter and see what happens come spring. My root cellar is right close to the road (nearly in the road ditch, honestly) so I could keep the eggs there where they'd be cool... hmm. Now ya got me thinkin' and that ain't ever good!

Mac
 
My wife raised chickens for years. She used to feed the shells back to the chickens, and never had a problem with the chickens eating their own eggs. She said it acts just like feeding them oyster shells.

You have to dry the empty shells, then finely crush them up.

Has been so long since she did that, she doesn't remember if she mixed the crushed shells in with oyster shells or with cracked corn, but she never had a problem with chickens cannibalizing eggs.
 
Seems to me it would be so much more civilized to give them to some less fortunate families to eat as Mac in Ar suggested.
 
Yea, but heck Ron, shooting the darn things is so much fun! I admit to doing the same thing, and will say that it takes a rifleman to hit them with iron sights at 50 yards, much less nail 'em at 100. The farm/guard/tactical cats do enjoy eating the "remains" though.

Mac
 
I tried that a few yeas ago and was told the same thing. They could not tell me if the store eggs just fell from the sky like manna.
 
One of the local ranges has an iron sight class at 50 yds and surprisingly they usually hit more than the unlimited scope class at 100.
 
JF ..... some might say you are killing unborn/unhatched chickens, worse yet unborn/unhatched chicks. PETA will be searching out our internet protocol number ..... yikes !!!
 
I'm not a chicken farmer. I think opposite would be better. Feed the shells to the chickens. I do remember feeding ground oyster shells when I was a kid.
 
Well duh ..... I always wondered how that worked. But that's the big egg factories which this thread isn't dealing with is it? But wait, wasn't there someone in biblical history that had some kind of immaculate conception? If it can happen with humans, certainly a lot easier with plain old chickens.
 
You can pickle the eggs, then sell them next summer when the people come back. You can feed the shells back to the hens. It won't make any difference. Been doing it for years.
 
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