We have an excess of duck eggs at the moment and were thinking of things to do with them. We eat and sell as many as we can but then what? We have cracked them and frozen them in Ziplock bags for future use, but you only have so much freezer space you want to dedicate to eggs. We were looking at other options. There is freeze drying, but that requires a very expensive piece of equipment. We decided to water glass some of them.
We took clean duck eggs, put them in (3) 7-gallon food-grade buckets (each held about 20 dozen eggs), and submerged them in a solution of water and pickling lime (4 gallons of water to 1 lb of lime). We then put a lid on to prevent evaporation and stuck them in the hanger.
These eggs should keep for two years. We don’t anticipate needing these eggs then because we plan to keep laying ducks and chickens on the farm, but we just don’t have the heart to throw away so many eggs. Next will probably be giving eggs to the dogs and selling our young ducks. We anticipated selling more chicken and duck eggs, so our supply is out-matching our demand by quite a bit.
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