Have Chickens? What to Do With That First Egg.
I got my first real egg this week. In the nesting box and everything.
After a lot of debate about souffle, omelette, scrambled or poached … this is what I ended up doing with it …
I bronzed it. Well, coppered it to be exact. The bookshelf awaits … And so does the souffle. At this rate and with the size they’re currently producing I may have enough for a souffle by around winter. Of next year.
Laura Watt
So it’s a labour of love?
Karen
Laura – In the past 2 days egg production has suddenly skyrocketed! I plan on spending most of the weekend looking up recipes that call for eggs and handing them out to people on the street. ~ karen
Marti
Aw, it’s gorgeous!
NOW BLOW THAT INNER STUFF OUT AND EAT IT! You know you wanna!
Btw, did you see that recipe for egg yoke ravioli? Hot. New. Interesting. And since your fresh eggs taste better, it might be just the thing to try.
Karen
Marti – Yeah, I’ve been seeing a lot of egg yolk ravioli lately! I was just talking to someone about making it today as a matter of fact! ~ k
Karen
Oh! And yes … I blew the egg out first. And I made something out of it. But you have to guess what it was. ~ k
Chau
Fresh eggs are awesome. Here is the recipe of egg yolk ravioli for your to try. Let me know how it turns out.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/
Judith
Ram’s eggs?
Marti
Cake? Lovely, beautiful, egg-enriched cake?
As in “I can make more eggs; let them eat cake!”
Kerry
I usually put a flower in my upside down eggcup. But a bronzed egg? That’s something!
Karen
Kerry – I had to do the egg. Sadly chickens don’t wear shoes. ~ karen
Kate S.
Is it awful that trying to picture a chicken’s shoe immediately made me picture a bronzed chicken foot bookend? I need help. Clearly.
lynn
In our house that first egg was a $500 egg! Between our coop and the organic, soy and GMO free feed our eggs would cost an astronomical amount at market. To us they are priceless! :)
Langela
What a beautiful picture! They do get bigger, but almost two years later we have a hen that insists on giving us eggs that are the size of a robin’s egg. But we also have one that gives us some the size of baseballs–literally. Poor girl!
Holly@loveoflifeblog
Congratulations, it’s beautiful! Did you make an omelette? Pehaps flavored with garlic “borrowed” from your neighbor?…
Shawna
I’ve been told by a friend who use to have chickens that they lay eggs better when there is a routine. She would go out each day at the same time, wearing the same clothes, saying the same thing to her chickens each morning. They were able to produce enough eggs to feed her family of five. If something out of the ordinary happened there would be a reduction in the number of eggs. Have you tried this?
Jennifer
glad to see the girls didn’t eat this one! it’s beautiful coppered up!
mimi
How to bronze an egg must be the makings of another post.
Home-made mayo is one great use for egg yolks, but then you have to make meringues with the whites.
It’s so exciting following this chicken journey with you! (without the hard bits like coop-making and the cleaning!!)
Nancy
Love it Karen..I would have probably done something like this also..You worked hard to earn that beautiful bronze “trophy”..
Liz S.
Yay for eggs! I use to babysit for a family that had a farm. I always went home with a basket full of the best eggs ever, tons of veggies, and sometimes fresh milk. I was quite popular my neighbors in my apartment building because I always had something good to cook when I got home.
SK Farm Girl
A bronzed egg! Take that you painted-white woodland creatures – HAH!
Tess
It’s like keeping and framing the first dollar bill at a mom and pop store.
Dana Niemeier
Congrats!!! Go! chickens Go! Start looking into a ‘egg network’ now…
carey
bronze is good, but heck, golden would be a whole lot better! get to work, girls!
shea
I love this.
Kaytie @ GardenKitchenHome
Haha, as I was reading the top of the post my eye kept drifting down to what had to be the most gorgeous egg ever laid. I didn’t realize you’d coppered it. It’s gorgeous! What a great idea :)
kelliblue
Yup, I’ll say it: I’m sooo EGG-cited for you! :)
Patty
My brother is giving me his 11 chickens (as soon as I get the coop built). I’m going to have to use this idea for my first egg! He told me they do require alot of TLC if you want them to lay. He doesn’t have time for them anymore, and they have almost completely stopped laying. So I’m going to have to show them some chicken love (whatever that might be) so they will start laying again.
Karen
Patty – All they need to lay is some food, water and 14 hours of light a day. So you need to put a light on a timer for them. That’s it. And of course they need to feel loved. :) ~ karen
Tiffany Cruz
I remember when my chicken laid her first egg. I was so proud, excited and happy that it finally happened. When we moved I had to give up my chickens but now that we are in a house again with a yard I’ve already ordered more due to be delivered in about 20 days! I was researching coops online and found your blog. Your website is great :) You’ve inspired me to try building our new coop myself. I’ll have my husband around if I need help but your my new hero. Thanks!
Karen
Thanks Tiffay! Welcome to the site. I’m glad you found it. So exciting to be getting new chicks! Better start building! ~ karen