Raw eggs as fertilizer?

I’m thinking of using eggs as “fertilizer”.

I want something to help my plants at the same time I am building soil.

I have seem recommendations to bury a whole egg when you plant a tomato plant, and reasons not to.

I am thinking more along the lines of getting a watering can, breaking and stirring the eggs then diluting with water and pouring onto the ground.  Maybe dry then crunch up the shells, feed them back to the chickens or use in the soil in the no chicken areas.

I’m starting new ground, formerly rabbit hutches and accompanying weeds.  

High desert, alkaline soil, windy. Last year I had sheep on it and big bales of self service alfalfa.  It seems that should have provided some benefit, but things aren’t doing that well.  I left several large clumps of perennial grasses.  Chop and dropped annuals.

The parent material is clay and rock that may be limestone or sandstone.  Varying depths below the surface.  It’s canyon country.  The land that erodes to canyons is beneath a layer of soil.

Has anyone ever experimented with eggs as fertilizer?  And absent experimentation, what are your musings?

Thanks

Some musings,

Bad eggs from my layers are added to my compost. Critters seem to love fishing bad eggs out of my compost pile and I will find evidence of the excavation time to time. I'm wondering if this is just because I have some particularly pesky crows or if the eggs might attract some unwanted attention to your growing areas.

Tim, do you add the eggs to your compost whole?  What makes them “bad”?  Are they rotten, or what?

Crows are really smart!  True of all the corvids!  They might just know your compost pile as part of their food route.

The critter issue is real. I've had foxes nose around the compost when anything protein-rich goes in. Liquid egg waste is probably the safer route if you want to avoid digging drama. Though burying a whole egg under a tomato is one of those things people swear by even if the evidence is thin.

Thekla McDaniels wrote:Tim, do you add the eggs to your compost whole?  What makes them “bad”?  Are they rotten, or what?

Crows are really smart!  True of all the corvids!  They might just know your compost pile as part of their food route.

Usually it is a cracked shell so I discard them, they get tossed in so some remain whole while others break. They are not rotten per-say, but disposed of. The crows seem to have my piles as a "stop" for the afternoons because I seem them on a semi-regular basis. They like to toss carbon material all around so I keep a pitchfork nearby.

Sounds about like corvids!

They recognize individual humans, and hold grudges!

Timothy Norton wrote: Usually it is a cracked shell so I discard them, they get tossed in so some remain whole while others break. They are not rotten per-say, but disposed of.

Cracked eggs that aren't rotten can be cooked and fed to dogs or other animals. That way they aren't in compost piles to attract rats.

Thanks for your thoughts everybody.😊

If I leave whole eggs around, one of my dogs will eat them!  I suspect her of stealing eggs from the nests if and when she can.🤣

I have a guinea hen who has been setting on a raft of eggs for almost 40 days.  Incubation is normally 25-28 days.  I suspect they aren’t going to hatch.  The hen hasn’t abandoned them but eventually she will.  Then what will I do with all those eggs?—— that’s what got me thinking about use as fertilizer/soil amendments.  I expect they won’t smell very good to me which is what gave me the idea of diluting with water.  And then possibly I will soak some fresh wood chips with the liquid to boost their decomposition… which might smell pretty bad to me but not to the dogs, which brings me right back to attracting unwanted wildlife…..