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Post by dwayner2 on Feb 14, 2021 10:03:21 GMT -5
I might have posted about this last year but now the experiment is complete. 😃👍
So, during the onset of the Pandemic last March I got to reading about different ways to preserve your fresh eggs from Summer into the Winter. Several methods were tried in centuries past but the best way is storing the fresh eggs in a solution of Pickling Line. You can find the “How Too” online if your interested.
So, last March I did 2 dozen Cackle Berries fresh from my Cousin’s farm. No wiping or washing off the “bloom”, straight from the nest to the lime solution and then stored at room temp in a covered bucket. I kept forgetting to pull some out this past year but finally did the other day. When you cracked them open they seemed a little runny and the yolk just broke open and mixed with the whites. No bad smell though so that was good. Scrambled 3 of them up and I tell you what...you’d never know they were 11 months old! No funny taste at all.
So, if you have Chickens and use a lot of eggs, I’d give this a try if you want to save your surplus eggs into Winter. But to be safe, I’d crack them open on the porch or outside just in case a few are bad. 😜
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Post by nana on Feb 14, 2021 13:07:18 GMT -5
Wow! I will definitely try this myself, because while I keep a light in my coop so the girls will lay a bit over the winter, I only give them 12 hours, so it’s not full production, and with the fall molt, I may go a week or three or four, where I’m barely getting a dozen a week. And I owe my neighbor a dozen a week for rent on my coop, so I have sometimes found myself, even though I have my own chickens, buying eggs in winter like a chump. (My coop is built into the barn on the property next door, which we used to own, but when my daughter moved into my dad’s old house, we sold it and it sold so fast (literally in 2 days) that I had no time to make alternate plans for the coop. Luckily our new neighbor is awesome, and she said she had always wanted chickens anyway, so for a dozen eggs a week, she gets all the fun of seeing them and feeding them scraps and weeds, etc, but I do all the work and buy the feed, and it all works out.) If I could save some of the glut of eggs from the spring to use in winter, that would be great! I looked it up, and here’s a page with more information: practicalselfreliance.com/storing-eggs-in-lime/Sounds good to me!
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Post by dwayner2 on Feb 14, 2021 19:45:30 GMT -5
There’s several good videos too. If I had pulled some out after 6 months maybe the yolk would still be intact, who knows. Still, they tasted OK to me. 😃👍
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Post by nana on Feb 15, 2021 8:40:52 GMT -5
I’ve noticed a lot of variation in shell strength and membrane strength depending on the chicken. I have one chicken that lays eggs that are almost impossible to neatly crack open. The shell and membrane are so strong that by the time you get it open, there are pieces of shell all through and the yolk gets popped by a shard as well. I wonder if a chick would even be able to hatch out of them! Maybe you just got one with thin membranes?
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Post by nana on May 15, 2023 17:01:13 GMT -5
By the way, this method really works!! I’ve been doing this for two years now, and haven’t had one fail yet. In fact last year I only did 2 one gallon jars of stored eggs, and then halfway through the summer my chickens decided en masse to take an extended break, which led them right into the fall molt, so it wasn’t nearly enough. This year I will have 5 one gallon jars down in the basement to carry me through. And if I don’t need that many stored eggs, we’ll have lots of sponge cake and omelets!
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