So we checked each egg to make sure it was good, mixed up a waterglass solution of 10:1 and started loading the 5 gallon crock. Carefully arranging them so the pointed end was down and fitting them as close together as we could, left us with still more eggs. We figured out we might need 23 dozen eggs until they laid in the spring. So we started filling this 3 gallon crock.
We still had several dozens in the fridge. We left them there. The waterglass eggs, some of them had been washed, a no-no for storing eggs. But they were dirty so… No one told the hens they were supposed to stop laying, and they never did. The eggs in waterglass kept very well into July of 2009. We’d check each dozen as we took them out, but over all lost less than 3 dozen. The ones in the fridge? We lost over half of them, within 3 months.
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