How long can you store eggs in the fridge?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- You don't have to run out of eggs in the winter when your hens aren't laying so well, you can simply put some of those plentiful summer eggs in the fridge and they will last for months! Here is what they look like and how to tell if eggs are fresh.
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Thank the ladies for their contributions to science.
I will. Thank you.
Thanks. This is probably the BEST video about this particular egg topic that I've seen so far!! Very helpful, thanks again!!!
Thank you. It was certainly good to find out the answer
I love this! I heard they last "up to six months" in the fridge. We use ours, sell them, or give them away usually within 2 months or less. We have hearty winter laying breeds so we don't really experience the decrease. This was awesome!
Thank you. It was interesting to do.
I have yet to find a breed that will lay reliably through the winter year on year but I'm hopeful that my Faverolles might do it - she's just coming up to a year old so it's too early to tell yet, I'll find out next winter (July-August).
Best wishes 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden I had to look up what a Faverolles was! So beautiful! My Silver Laced Wyandotte don't skip a beat. Now add in these Reds and it is a competition for sure. Out of twenty one hens I have pulled 14 so far today, and I know a handful of them lay in late afternoon and one sneaky one lays at night time. haha. Do you have a video where you explain the breeds of your chickens indepth? You definitely like the puffy frilly ones. They always look so cuddly!
It's difficult to talk about breeds because we don't have many in New Zealand and those we have are often not genetically the same as in other countries even when the name and appearance is similar. This is because it is prohibitively expensive to import live chickens or fertile eggs to New Zealand so breeders have worked by recombining the genetic material that's already here.
My favourite breed (at least at the moment) is possibly the mottled Leghorn. They lay lots of white eggs like most Leghorns but are much friendlier and less flighty. I currently have three Barnevelders, two mottled leghorns, one salmon Faverolles, and one buff laced Wyandotte.
@@chickensinmygardensilkies will lay on the off months from Barnevelder, Australorp, Barred Rock etc
I have never kept Silkies. They are available in New Zealand but all the local information I've found says they are kept more for ornamental and showing rather than egg laying.
What a great informational video. I never knew that you could keep eggs for that long. Thank you.
Me neither 🙂
Amazing egg quality, what lucky ladies!
Yes my chickens are lucky to have such a good life compared to many chickens and I am lucky to have them and the enjoyment they bring.
We just love your channel.
Wow Thank you. It's great to hear from you 🙂
I always love your videos and I REALLY appreciate all the work you put into this one. SO helpful! Thank you so much!! 💖
Thank you. I found it interesting. If I was to do it again I would not use eggs from Agnes because her shells are not good enough for storing long term.
Very cool video! Answered a lot of questions!!
It's really quite surprising isn't it 🙂
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Have a great day!
Good info..Thank you
Thank you
Love your site you are wonderful! It’s like having my own Grandma teaching me about raising chickens!😘
Thank you. I love having the opportunity to share what I have learned 🙂 Thanks for watching 🙂
Always wondered about this. Thanks for sharing
You're welcome. It was interesting to find out 🙂
Thank you for sharing your wonderful information!!!
You're welcome 🙂
Thanks for commenting
Ur video was spot on and thank u it's been educative too. In these testing times with lock downs extremely helpful !
Thank you. Do check out some of my other videos too. This one
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is one I did when New Zealand went into lockdown but it can be relevant in all kinds of circumstances.
In testing times, I find chickens can be soothing
I am starting a back yard coop this year, thanks for the info
How exciting! Good luck. I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time 🙂
Your videos are very helpful, thank you very much.
Thank you 🙂
GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU!!!!
Thank you. And thanks for watching 🙂
This is the best video yet I've seen on storing eggs in the fridge.
Thank you. It was interesting to find out how well they stored. Right now we are heading into Autumn (fall) and I have several dozen eggs in the fridge for when the chickens take their winter holiday 🙂
Really interesting. I’ve watched this a few times and shared it. Great experiment
This last summer I accumulated all the eggs I could fit in my fridge, using always the oldest ones as I added more. Now (in winter) I've just finished eating eggs laid in April. One of my hens has started to lay again but our store is still reducing.
Outstanding test. I thoroughly enjoy your channel. One of the very few genuine info Chicken channels.
Thank you.
Thank you ! Very helpful a video. Good one
Thank you
Thank you very much for these useful information which are presented in the most interesting and clear methods :) Your channel is the best I came across so far regarding answering my chicken questions. Wishing you good luck for all your amazing future videos. Hello from Sri Lanka :)
Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.
Best wishes to you and your chickens 🐥
Great video.
Thank you so much 🙂
I am laughing my way through this one! You are just fun. Not to mention, this is a great video for me to share with the ladies that like to buy my chicken's eggs. I hope they laugh along with us. Thank you so much. J:o)..
Thank you. It was fun to do and I'm glad you found it fun to watch. I hope it is useful for you and your ladies. Good luck
Thank you ma'am for sharing!
I'm glad you liked it. It was a fun experiment to do 🙂
Wow, thanks mom
Pretty amazing, isn't it.
Very well done. Information we could all use. Thank you for teaching me about eggs
Teaching (from) grandma about eggs 😀
Thanks for sharing this information with everyone very helpful information thanks.
Thank you 🙂 I appreciate the feedback
Thanks!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching 🙂
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I had a carton of eggs I had to test because I was out of town for two months, doing the water in the glass test all of the eggs floated so I had my corned beef and hash eggless! Bummer.
Thanks for the advice
Thanks, no beating around the bush with this informative video, I knew I had some older eggs on the back of the bottom shelf unopened since the day I bought them and put them there. Didn't realize they were that old. I bought them around the 4th of July.
They are a new type to me. "Pasture Raised , a little more expensive, seems worth it to me. Just like in your video, they passed all tests and were fine. They are probably 4 months old, as today is 10/14/2021. I almost threw them away.
Thanks
Great! Thanks for sharing that. Beware that in some countries most commercial eggs have been washed so without their protective bloom they don't last as long, so use those eggs soon, and open them one by one into a cup or saucer before you add them to your dish - if they look and smell good, they'll be fine 🙂
This sure answered a lot of questions Thank you for a wonderful video !
Thank you. It was fun to do. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
What about frozen eggs ?
Frozen eggs are a whole other thing. They have to be taken out of their shell and either beaten or separated into whites and yolks, and maybe add salt or sugar, and the end isn't useful for all purposes you can use fresh eggs for. Too much hassle for me!
Thank you
I didn't know, thanks
Thanks for the info.!!!
You're welcome 🙂
Thank you for sharing your eggsperiment! I was going to try water glass. Big business keeps them in refrigeration to sell when there’s not many laying in winter.
Think I’ll just do as you, put a date on the end of the carton and have eggs all winter!
Thanks again!
I eggspect that waterglass and oil and all those other things would do even better. But easy is good, and a few months is more than adequate for me.
Cheers
Merci Beaucoup!
De rien 🙂
Super Informative:)
Thank you 🙂
That was a very informative kind of piece, and I must really appreciate the efforts your kind self has taken to wait for the entire practical process and present us with this wonderful and informative knowledge, Thanks a lot 👍👍👍👍and GOD BLESS.
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Thank you. Of course I wanted to do it to find out for myself and I'm delighted I am able to share what I learned.
We're giving our girls away because we're traveling this summer. I was wondering how long eggs last so I can stockpile some. 5 months sounds great. Thank you. Getting more chickens next spring
Five months easy! I stockpiled over summer ready for the girls to take their winter break from laying. I just put all eggs in the fridge and ate the oldest ones. Now egg production has slowed and we are eating more than they lay so the stock is shrinking. Yesterday we ate delicious fried eggs for breakfast - they were laid in late January!
Thank you so much for this video. In Portugal, traditional sweets are usually very rich in eggs, including Christmas time sweets, so this was very helpful for when we have those (extremely) extra eggs during Summer.
Excellent! You can accumulate extras throughout summer, using up the older ones while adding more than you are using and by Christmas you should still have plenty 🙂
Thank you! Great information. I am without eggs right now. Wish I'd known this when I had the glut of eggs.
There will be another glut one day, and another lean time
Your vids are so useful .... this one was a real eye opener..... sub'd.
Thank you and God bless.
Gilly wife of mark in Norfolk UK
Thank you Gilly. It's nice to meet you. Greetings from New Zealand to Norfolk 🙂
I love making the videos almost as much as I love keeping chickens. Thank you for watching and commenting. It's early morning here but probably evening in Norfolk, so I'll wish you a good evening 🙂
Haha. Very handy demonstration of how egg change in storage. I have never tried to store eggs for that long. I always try to store eggs for a few weeks so I can hard boil them and peel them -- since we know how hard it is to peel fresh eggs. It is winter here and all my girls are almost finishing up their molt. I am getting very few eggs now-- with short days and cold nights down to 17 degrees F. so far.. I stop giving away eggs at the end of summer so I can store some up for winter. It would be horrible to have to buy store bought eggs. Your eggs are beautiful. Enjoy your lovely summer.
Thank you. You are so right about hard boiling fresh eggs.
@@chickensinmygarden May the Lord Jesus 🙏🏼bless and keep you my dear and your golden chickens🐣
Well I feel better! We've missed Egg crates in the back of the fridge and tried them months later before. They seemed perfectly fine! I was a little scared we'd get sick but they all smelled, looked and floated like they were fresh! I think not washing them may help. Cute chicky cameo at the end!❤
Yes, I agree, not washing them makes a big difference. You might have already seen my video about that
th-cam.com/video/cZJHiW3ul9s/w-d-xo.html
The chicken I'm holding at the end is Agnes- the one who laid those eggs with the thin blue shells 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden Thank you for the response! My husband and I just found you today so we're new subbi friends.
I will check out that video! ❤️
Welcome! I hope you find lots of interest 🙂
Agnes' services are no longer required. LOL Just kidding! :) Much love to the hens. Thank you for this video. It's so informative and honestly helps with preservation ideas.
Yes Agnes's eggs were a bit substandard and definitely didn't store well. Over the next few months her eggs got softer shells, then one day she prolapsed - I have a video about that too but it's a bit gruesome
th-cam.com/video/JPJ4vPqNxuE/w-d-xo.html
I always wondered if the float experiment was a definite... since I never tried it😄,,, thanks for showing me🐓
The float experiment actually tells you how much water has evaporated through the shell. The evaporation rate is also affected by temperature, humidity and air flow as well as by time 🙂
Surely liked the video. I don't like buying food and throwing it out because it spoiled. You've shown that no matter how old your egg is, place it in some water and if it floats, throw it out!
I'm glad you liked it 🙂
Great job honey thank you very much
Thank you. It was interesting to do. And this winter (it's now early winter here) I had plenty of eggs to last me until the young pullets came into lay.
I go through a lot of eggs, but the prices are insane right now. So I was thinking about 120 eggs today when I go to market. I didn't want them going back on me. I eat about 4-5 daily. More if I am going to cook with them for dinner. This video says I should be good with my purchase. Thank you.
Just be sure to find out whether the eggs have been washed, and preferably how old they are when you buy them. But at 5 a day, 120 will last you less than a month - no worries 🙂
Excuse two comments below hit in somehow wrong video , was put in another, your was next going to watch. So sorry.
Love watching your videos. Once again this video very helpful to watch. LOL and thank you for all your information.
No worries I can remove them from this video and you can put them on the right one. I agree with your wishes for peace and well-being for everyone. 🙂
Thank you so much Sheryl. I have often wondered how long my eggs can be eaten after I get them. A LOT longer than I thought 🤣😂🙏🏻
Yep, definitely!
Thanks for this info. Do you wash your eggs? If so, how? I really like your channel. There is a lot of conflicting information and to a new chicken owner, which is what I am this year, it’s very confusing and I don’t know what the right thing to do is. It causes me a lot of stress and anxiety because I don’t want to hurt my girls & boys. I always turn to your channel so thank you thank you thank you! You are kind, well spoken and obviously knowledgeable about your hens and I appreciate that.
Thank you Mary. As well as listening to people you think might be right I would always encourage you to watch your chickens - they will often tell you 🙂
And No I didn't wash the eggs. I chose clean eggs - didn't store any dirty ones. I'll do a video about washing eggs but basically it is usually a bad idea to wash eggs from your own chickens.
I don’t wash my eggs and I put them in dirt and all. You can always brush off the dirt with a soft brush
Why do you put them in dirt?
Waeo madam really good
Thank you 🙂
Great info.but it also depends on if the eggs are store bought or home fresh and aslo depends on if you wash them. I dont wash and leave mine on the counter for months. 👍
I agree - I never wash eggs. And I definitely wouldn't try this with store bought eggs 🙂
Like 453! Hi, new friend here 🔔! Great informational video! Learned something new today with the sink or float test! I heard the best way to store eggs is to keep them on the counter unwashed! Did you ever hear this? Thank you for sharing! Hope you have a great week! Take care and God bless! Animal Papa and Junior! 😎❤️👍🙏
Thank you for your Like. Do check out some of my other videos and subscribe if you like them too.
Yes I do know some people store their eggs unwashed on the counter. I believe unwashed is best, but only if the eggs have not already been washed before you get them. If you are in the United States I believe eggs you buy from the supermarket will have already been washed, so your only option is to keep them refrigerated. Of course if you have your own chickens, then you can have eggs that still have their natural protective coating and they will stay fresh much longer 🙂
Water glassing eggs helps in storing eggs, antibacterial, and preventing moisture loss and good for about 6 months.
Have you tried it? I have read about it but never tried it out. I'd be interested to know about your experience if you have 🙂
Cool experiment, fun to watch. What 2 greens would you recommend are most important to feed them to get that rich gold yolk? In US that is.
I think any of the greens your mother told you to eat 🙂 plus grass and clover. Greens like beet leaves and collards and spinach. And weeds like purslane. And of course the weed we call Puha here in NZ. You call it something different - check out my video about Free greens from weeds to get golden yolks.🙂
@@chickensinmygarden thank you!
What do you feed your hens. Those yolk are stunning !
I feed them Sharpes layer pellets which is a good quality feed made locally. Also greens from my garden (like old spinach and puha) plus they free range and eat lots of green grass and bugs.
Agnes' eggs have an unusual green/blue color that I've never seen before. All old eggs were of this type which might have skewed the experiment. Eggs store a long time, at least a couple months. Floating eggs don't want to stay submerged when boiling them but are still fine.
Yes Agnes carries the Araucana genes so she lays blue eggs.
Wow I didn't know you can store eggs that long. You always have great information.
Did you wash the eggs or if your selling eggs would you wash them for clients? We don't have any eggs yet just started.
You will have to watch my video about that 😉
th-cam.com/video/cZJHiW3ul9s/w-d-xo.html
But for this experiment - no I didn't
@@chickensinmygarden oh great thank you!
Great information!! Did you wash the eggs before storing in the frig or did you leave the natural coating/bloom on them?
No I never wash eggs. Occasionally one might be really poopy and then I would wipe the shell and use it immediately.
@@chickensinmygarden Thank you!!
I remember my mother saying when she was a girl in the late 1930's. She hated going g to the 'cold' cellar towards the end of winter to get eggs. They were kept in barrels of water and toward spring g she had to reach deep. It was cold and slimy as some eggs had broken.that was on a farm in Ohio.
Brrrr! I'm glad we have refrigerators these days 🙂
Very informative, thank you. Did you wash your eggs before storing in refrigerator? My girls are free range so most of their eggs got a little dirt on them. Should I rub them off before storing? Thus far I've been store eggs on counter for 2 to 3 months and they seem ok.
No, I just put them in an egg carton in the fridge. I wouldn't worry about a little smear of dirt but if I get a damp or poopy egg I wipe it and use it immediately. You can just make sure any you keep long term are the clean ones.
Thank you. I hope is to never buy/support commercial egg industry even organic.
does this also go for the same as store brought eggs or just fresh farm eggs ? I have eggs in fridge for a month now, and I had a few that were spoiled. I cracked one and that one seems fine, I don't smell anything, but it makes me nervous and I use my eggs to bake as well so I don't want nobody to get sick. I didn't realize how long they were in there for like I had surgery to get all my wisdom teeth out so I didn't eat them and time just went by during the healing & recovery.
Well it depends - on how old the eggs were before they were even sold, and whether they have been washed (as US eggs are - that reduces the shelf life).
But you can pretty much rely on your judgement - if it looks and smells ok, it's probably ok (except for rare infections like salmonella).
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Wow..., would never have believed that an egg will keep for 5 months in the fridge..., thank you very very much. I am currently get 1 egg from 9 chickens (dead winter here, zero degrees this morning) and yet only 2 months ago I was getting 6+ a day and giving them away..., sorry neighbours. Ha ha.
That's the way with chickens - lots of eggs or hardly any. I think most people who live in cities have got out of touch with the rhythm of the seasons - they think food is in the shops all year round and don't realise how unnatural that is. Chickens can play a small part in connecting us to the universe.
Hi great video, tell me it’s late autumn going into winter just had a cold snap, and my 25 lady’s are giving me 1 egg a day I feel like crying 😭.
I had to buy eggs last winter (only one dozen) it sure does grate on the nerves. And I kept looking at those eggs I was aging for the video! Next year we will both be better prepared.
I was cleaning out an old chicken coop once and I kept hitting eggs with the shovel, they would explode and eggshells would hit the walls. Sometimes it would sound like a gun went off.
Yuk!
We coat ours in mineral oil and they keep on the counter at room temperature for 8 months. The yokes do go flat though.
8 months is really good!
@@chickensinmygarden Did you wash yours before you put them in the refrigerator?
@@tangle70 No I never wash my eggs. If they are really poopy I will wipe them and use them straight away. I must do a video about washing eggs.
Were the 5 month eggs washed? I heard that the protective coating helps them stay fresh longer. I wouldn't mind storing the eggs in the fridge for the winter. Just wondering if the need to be washed or left as-is?
No they were not washed. You are right, eggs should not be washed. In fact I have a whole video about it 🙂
th-cam.com/video/cZJHiW3ul9s/w-d-xo.html
@@chickensinmygarden thank you so much! I glad I watched this video. I'm new to raising chickens and some of my girls should be laying soon. I was sure about washing, but this helped me to decide. I'll keep the nest boxes clean and leave the egg natural. Thank you for your awesome videos!
I hope you find plenty of interest. I know you will love keeping chickens 🙂
Did you wash those eggs before you put them in the refrigerator ?
No. I wouldn't store dirty eggs. But as long as they are not dirty washing eggs from your own chickens is generally not a good idea. I'll do a video about washing eggs.
Did the 5months old egg float?
No it didn't. It sank quite convincingly. Sorry I didn't video that.
Can we store turkey egg in refrigerator if yes so how long can we store
Yes you can definitely store turkey eggs in the refrigerator. As to how long - I would say atheist 3 months, probably much longer
What about fertilized eggs, how long can I store them in the fridge for hatching and and for consumption?
For eating, fertilised eggs should last just as long in the fridge as unfertilised eggs.
But if you want to hatch them, you should not be putting them in the fridge at all (most fridges are too cold and will kill the potential life). Eggs for hatching should be no more than a few days old, rotated, etc. I will make it video for you about how to store eggs for hatching.
@@chickensinmygarden 😮 Thanks can't wait to watch it.
Btw I tried to store hatching eggs in the fridge. 16 days is longest storage for eggs to be able to hatch (first two days in the room and from third days into the fridge) I was wondering if someone have better story. Btw the fridge temperature that I used is higher than 5°C.
That sounds like a very good experience. I bet most people have not done as well as you 🙂
Maybe if you store them in ziplock bags in the fridge, they will be moisture stable and not dry out.
I did wrap a plastic bag around one whole dozen in their carton once, but the shells got mouldy. Maybe that was just coincidence or because I used a bag that had had bread in it, but I've never done it again. If you try it, do let me know how it goes 🙂
so the 10 days old egg is hatchable?
The answer to that question is in this video
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The short answer is - it's not impossible, but probably not
Did u store in freezer or normal fridge
Normal fridge
I have one year old eggs in the fridge in carton are they still good to eat??
I haven't kept eggs in the fridge that long but it's certainly worth opening them to find out. They might be all dried up and thick inside, depending on how much water they have lost in that time. Do please let me know what they are like!
How long can you leave them out with out refrigeration?
I haven't tested that, but it's definitely shorter. Probably around 6 - 10 weeks
@@chickensinmygarden I’m curious to know because we are new to chickens and we are in the process of planning and getting everything ready before ordering our chicks. I just discovered that you don’t have to refrigerate them, at least right away. I find your videos to be super informative and very helpful. Thank you.
It's common in many countries to store eggs at room temperature or in a cool place like a cellar. They keep at least a month like that.
@@chickensinmygarden thank you, now I know the float test because of you. : )
I have 1 month more stay egg in home so afraid to eat
If it looks good and smells good, it is good 🙂
Difference between white and brown eggs
Me 😅 I’m at 7 to 8 months. Lol 😂
Golly! Surely your chickens don't go on strike for that long! But it's good to be able to store them if you have to 🙂
And if you just keep them in a basket in the kitchen ?
I haven't done the experiments but I would say about 3 or 4 weeks (as long as you didn't wash them)
so2 (sulphurdioxide ) produced in eggs float >Best if eggs float , should be discarded
Can v store eggs in fridge for 15 days
Certainly. Indeed for much longer than that if they are freshly laid when you put them in.
@@chickensinmygarden yes mam they r fresh. Can I put stored egg for heachting
It's generally not a good idea. I mention that in this video.
th-cam.com/video/nvkH-5Im1WA/w-d-xo.html
You can certainly try. Some people have successfully hatched eggs from the refrigerator - it depends on how cold that particular fridge is and how drafty.
So, your eggs are very clean - do you wash them before storing for months?
No, I never wash eggs. Here's why
th-cam.com/video/cZJHiW3ul9s/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZHiv0gBtoYHVB2Rx
The trick is to have a clean nest box.
So, never let your chickens sleep in the nest box.
And if you do get a couple of eggs with a bit of mud on them, use those first .
Why don't you just freeze them?
Hi there. I haven't tried it myself but I believe that to freeze eggs you have to take them out of the shell and separate the yolks from the whites and freeze them separately. Then they would be ok for baking but not be useful for fried eggs for breakfast. Have you tried it?
Poor Agnes 🐔🐔🥚🥚
But her eggs are blue 🙂