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 I tried water glassing eggs this past spring.  It worked really well for us!   Almost a year later and the eggs are still good.  No refrigeration, just protect them from freezing.



I just followed her instructions.   It was so easy.  

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My mother did this water glassing late last summer while her hens were still laying prolifically. She's glad she did! Almost 6 months later, the eggs are perfectly useable, and perfect for the current time of year as the hens are not laying very much now. If I get hens someday I will do this, too!

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The longest I've successfully kept waterglassed/ slaked lime preserved eggs, is 2yrs. They are not the same, by that point, for frying, though. In my experience, over that amount of time, the yolks get very soft, and break, immediately upon opening the egg - but I've not noticed anything else 'wrong' with them, especially in baking, omelets, quiche, etc.

I also feed my dog raw eggs, daily, and she has had no issue with eating them raw, other than the little stinker is so used to the firm, fresh yolks, that she gives me a funny look, when she gets one with a broken, runny yolk. No tummy troubles for any of us, and hubs only even guesses at it, when I scramble the eggs, instead of frying, because he knows I prefer over easy, lol.

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Carla Burke wrote:The longest I've successfully kept waterglassed/ slacked lime preserved eggs, is 2yrs.  



Wow  two years!  That is impressive!  

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Unfortunately our extreme heat wave damaged our lime water eggs, most of them cracked in the jars. This year I will put the jars in an old cooler as well as keeping them under the house. The ones that I preserved after the heat wave were fine.

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Hi, I am wondering what area you are at? Are the chickens stop laying in winter because of coldness or short daylight hours? I keep reading about chicken not laying in winter, but mine all started laying at 6 months old, in Nov or Dec non stop through the year. One year old Rhode island red  stopped for a month when she was molting and the naked-neck lays half the amount when molting. I also have a black-tailed bantam, which is supposed to lay 50 a year as pet chicken, but she has laid 13 in the last 3 weeks already. I can't keep up eating so many eggs but don't feel like giving away as I want the eggshells back.

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None of my older chickens were laying for about 2 months, so I was only getting eggs from the young hens (less than a year old). The older chickens have just starting laying again. I'm currently getting 5 eggs a day from 10 chickens. I'm in zone 8a, so not that cold and in southern Oregon, so not that far north. Maybe it's more dependent on the variety, my older hens are all barred rock.

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I know that in the winter, with our whole place being in the woods, what little light we get is VERY filtered, even though most of our trees are deciduous, so when the weather gets dreary, and gray, we have substantially less light - and with few exceptions, even my best layers take a break. Sometimes only for a few days, other times, we've gone as long as a month, with none, at all. But, for me, this is just as much about what to do with all those surplus eggs. And, (though I don't wish it on anyone, ever) sometimes, things happen, and you lose some. Other times, I've needed eggs, and dropped the whole basket. In those times, it's really nice to have something to fall back on.

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Stacy Witscher wrote:Unfortunately our extreme heat wave damaged our lime water eggs, most of them cracked in the jars. This year I will put the jars in an old cooler as well as keeping them under the house. The ones that I preserved after the heat wave were fine.



Yes!  You will have to to keep them cool!   They will get rotten if they get too warm for too long.    This system needs a a cool dry place!  

Jars?  I would keep them in the largest crock or container you can.   Something 5 or more gallons is ideal.  A larger vessel has more mass so it will stay cooler.  
 
We had over 100 degree weather.  I just kept the egg crocks on the floor in the back of a closest buried in blankets.  

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Where I live we had the heat dome, 116F for two days in the middle of 3 weeks over 100F. This is not normal. I had the eggs in 1 gallon jars, under my house, that's about 3 dozen per jar. With the uncertainty about weather, I suspect putting jars in a cooler is my best option or in some other way insulating them further.

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Simple Living Alaska made a great video where they try eating eggs that they pickled themselves eight months prior. Here it is:

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