Eggs for egg base use !

[RdFx]

I noticed im getting low on one of my lure bases so decided to fix up a couple gallons of egg base which i age two yrs before using. A friend has pheasants and at this time of year he has five gallon buckets of pheasant eggs which are good to eat but not for incubating. One cant eat that many eggs so i get five gallon buckets of whole eggs in the shell. Have any of you ever tried to hand crack an pheasant egg? Well i tell you i almost had to use a hammer, those shells are thick and hard. Got it down to a science now less hammer . Lots of egg cracking as pheasant eggs less goldens are half the size of regular chicken eggs.
If any of u stop by i will be in back yard under maple tree on five gallon bucket cracking five gallon bucket of eggs....oh a few cold brews are available and extra five gallon bucket seats to chat on !!!

[trappnman]

growing up at home, we had lots of ducks, chickens and geese. and we had woodies, mallards, widgeons, teal, bluebills, etc- all of dad's friends were duck hunters, and if they wingtipped a bird, they brought it to dad, Illegal as heck I'm sure, but..........

So we ate eggs from banties all the way up to goose eggs.

[Mike Wilhite]

I've eaten a lot of guinea hen eggs. Same thing, just about needed a hammer and chisel to open em up!

[redsnow]

If you're using them for lure, I'd use a piece of 2x4 and bust them in the bucket, and strain it through 1/4" wire mesh. I'm sure it'd drip for a while, but you'd still get most of it.

Up in the next county there was a taxidermist who owned commercial-sized turkey houses, egg layers. I'd stop now and then just to check on things, usually find him out in one of the poultry houses, and he'd always send me home with a batch of double-yoked turkey eggs. Dark, fresh, yellow yokes, that'd make about 3 regular chicken eggs. Seems like they have a different flavor, but I like eggs! He's long gone, but I think the kids are running the farm. I'll stop next time up that way!

[braveheart]

When I grew up worked at a chicken hatchery.The pullet eggs are about like a rock we use to throw them at each other really hurt.Later in the year hens are worn out shell was just a leather like covering.Use to take home the double yokers to eat.

[trappnman]

I used to work at a big egg farm in high school- sure was "fun" when one got out