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slowworm

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can you get through in a week?

We're hopefully going the keep some hens again next year and I'm trying to work out how many eggs we'd use. We do all our cooking and baking and can get a rough idea but wondered how any other people use?
 

Mesquite

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We can get through about a dozen between the wife, myself and all our hounds :)

A friend of mine has a couple ducks and he does a good trade selling his excess to folks at work. He charges £2 for 6 which goes towards the feed etc
 

Robson Valley

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Farm eggs? By myself, maybe 4-5 per week. Some in baking and some fried or hard boiled when I have the appetite.
Then, I haul off and use 12-15 for a jar of pickled eggs.
 

erehwon

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We keep @ 10 chickens just for eggs (different chickens for meat), laying an average of 7 per day, we currently have 102 waiting to be used! Omelettes, scrambled eggs, fried eggs are all part of our diet and many are used in baking by my partner, others are fed to the dogs and given to friends (yes in that order!). Shells are dried and fed back to them for calcium, you can never have too many eggs and none will ever go to waste. Do not forget eggs can also be frozen as well.
 

Nomad64

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We’ve been keeping hens (two each of Black Rock, Speckledies, Light Sussex, Bluebell and one Cream Legbar) all bought at PoL a few months ago and we’ve been surprised at how many eggs we are still getting in the middle of winter.

The Legbar has stopped laying but the other eight are averaging almost one a day so we are getting about fifty eggs a week even during this cold snap.

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A neighbour takes a dozen a week, Mrs N and I probably average at least 20 a week between us, which is probably a bit more than is healthy and the rest get given away or sold - I must get around to putting an honesty box at the bottom of the drive but there is not a lot of passing traffic.

Not kept fowls before but really enjoying it.
 

oldtimer

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Several neighbours keep chickens, typically half a dozen. The convention is that if you feed the neighbour's chickens while they are away, you get to keep the eggs. We usually get more than we can eat in a week whenever we do this. Plenty of cottages in our village have an honesty box and a supply of eggs on the doorstep. Also the village shop will take any surplus eggs as well as surplus garden produce. No shortage of eggs, but egg cartons are in short supply.
 

Toddy

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Half a dozen a month. I bake frequently but rarely use eggs, and only Himself eats eggs as eggs, I don't like them at all, and Son2 only eats them hidden in baking.
I know that my example is the opposite end from most folks here, but it's the reality of it.
Very good food are eggs, if you like them.

M
 

Robson Valley

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Nomad64: Nobody knows you have eggs until you get the box set up. It pays to advertise.
Once discovered, I'll predict a steady use. I know I would.

Easier than me phoning the farmer and asking them to drop off 1-2 dozen, next time they come to town.
I leave the money under a rock!
 

Nice65

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Eggs at only worth eating when turned into cakes and pancakes. Save yourself the trouble of disposing of the eggs and eat the chicken.

How to dispose of half a dozen. Fried potato chunks, onion, garlic, red pepper, chorizo, lots of parsley, cooked into a hefty Spanish omelette. My kind of cake :)

Our laying hens as a lad only really made a good soup of slow casserole. Still preferable to the poor alkali burned and tasteless supermarket chickens we get these days.

In answer to the OP, the two of us use around 6 eggs a week. I like them fresh enough for the whites not to spread in the pan, so if we have a couple of older eggs left, they get scrambled for the dogs.
 

santaman2000

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I eat 2 or 3 a day by myself and that's before I start boiling eggs for snacks or using them in other recipes. I figure about 3 & 1/2 dozen a week for me and Barbara. My daughter and her husband and 2 kids (typical family of 4) go through almost a dozen a day.
 

mousey

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I don't eat many, my boys are old enough and interested enough to cook and bake themselves. My eldest [11] just looks up on the phone recipes for cakes and gets on with it. Once I showed them to make scrambled eggs we started getting through loads of them. The wife bakes also but a little more infrequently than the kids. An average week we'll get through 24, occasionally I'll have to supplement that by another 12-24 if everyone is baking and eating at the same time.
 

bopdude

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Interesting thread, I was under the impression ( don't know from where ) that 2 a day was the max a person could safely eat ............................/ off to Google ?
 

Paul_B

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IIRC the old advice was no more than 1 a day and 4or 5 a week. Or similar. It was due to it being high in cholesterol. Or just eat the egg whites.

Now they know it's high in the good cholesterol or something like that so eat within moderation.

I have 8 at least a week. That's 4 Saturday for breakfast and 4 Sunday. Occasional snack of a few scrambled the odd evening if peckish.
 

bigboned

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Interesting thread, I was under the impression ( don't know from where ) that 2 a day was the max a person could safely eat ............................/ off to Google ?

Is it not just the yokes that you are supposed to limit? Eg I would have a 5 egg white omelette with 1 yoke
 

Paul_B

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IIRC current thought is eggs contain too much food stuff to ration. I think essential amino acids for example. Those are essential chemical building blocks the body needs but is unable to produce from other chemicals. Something like 28 of these can only come from diet. Eggs are a good source of a few.

Funny enough the weirdest source of a certain hard to get essential amino acids is corn on the cob that's been attacked by a certain fungi that turns out black and swollen. In the western nations they burn the whole crop at the first sign of it in meso-america it's a delicacy.
 

milius2

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Many many eggs. My grandfather has 20 chickens, he can't keep up with 3 families needs and we have to buy some extra. I think 10 per person per week is the average. We love them for the breakfast and it's this or porridge that we have, so I prefer eggs. And then wife likes to cook cakes and stuff and the eggs disappear. what about duck eggs, i heard they are much better.
 

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