[wolverine]

Egg skelters look nice but aren't eggs best in the fridge?

[Casey76]

You can do either, and some people advise to  refrigerate any eggs where the hens are running with a cockerel, but the important thing is NOT to take eggs out of the fridge, and them put them back in again ans the difference in air temp can help draw bacteria into the egg.

Pesonally I keep my eggs on the counter top where I date them with pencil.  Anything over a week old I boil up and give back to the girls.

[Pretty Chick]

Pesonally I keep my eggs on the counter top where I date them with pencil. 

I do the same, I don't put them in the fridge.

Anything over a week old I boil up and give back to the girls.

If I have eggs that are 1 week +, I feed them to my dogs. I personally don't feed my chickens eggs because I'm worried they would grow addicted to the taste of egg and and start to crack and eat their own eggs.
I guess your chickens are very well-behaved Casey  .

[Casey76]

I feed both raw and cooked eggs to my chooks, and haven't yet (since over a year) had a problem with egg eating... maybe my hens *are* well behaved lol

[batcatz]

I write on mine with a pencil too.  I'm surprised you feed week old eggs back to the chickens or dogs as they are still fresh for up to three weeks and still better than supermarket eggs.  Is it because you have so many eggs?   

[Casey76]

Yes, even though I take eggs into work with me, if I don't keep up with them I'd be buried under a mountain of eggs!

[Pretty Chick]

I'm surprised you feed week old eggs back to the chickens or dogs as they are still fresh for up to three weeks and still better than supermarket eggs.  Is it because you have so many eggs?  

Yes, we sometimes get overrun with eggs  .

[grumpydad]

we mark with a pencil.
i made a rack to hold enough for a day, several stories high, different storey each day.

[compostqueen]

Pencil here too, and I have an egg skelter

You don't see eggs in the refgrigerated section of the supermarket Wolverine    So don't put them in the fridge at home 

[Wild Pony]

Considering most of the eggs in supermarkets are anything up to 3 weeks old, thats a bit rich isn't it. Just tell them they're of superbly better quality.......unless they don't appreciate quality.  Just thinking here (my distrusting lil brain cell) maybe they think they should be free co they've not got store boxes and are of less worth???

[joyfull]

if the hens run with a cockerel they should be kept in the fridge but I never do.

[Ice]

if the hens run with a cockerel they should be kept in the fridge but I never do.

Don't they need more space than that to run about?

[joyfull]

I have a huge fridge   

[TeaPots]

i made a rack to hold enough for a day, several stories high, different storey each day.

I just gather each days eggs and put them in the egg tray, and use a different egg tray each day (even if on a particularly bad day I only get 1 or 2 eggs). I stack them, newest to the bottom. I did think of writing mon,tues,wed etc on each of the trays, but never got round to it.

As for writing on eggs, pencil is the safest, especially for hatching eggs, and I always write date, breed and coop number/hens name when known