Does anyone know what I can do with a lot of farm eggs that are going to waste as in a bait or lure
Bust them up and put shells and all in a glass jar. Let them ferment with either vented or slightly loose lid. I put stuff like that in heavy black garbage bags tied shut so no flies. In a few months it’ll have a consistency like mayonnaise and not smell as bad as you’d think. Might use as is for a change up or mix in with some other bait. Pro lure maker Bob Jameson makes a cultured egg base for some of his lures. I’m sure his methods are more refined.
If nothing else smear in the vicinity of your sets to get a stop and milling/searching effect. I’d wait until cold weather. Possums and skunks will be interested.
Or, just the egg shells work in a dirt hole, they say, for fox. I know if you just peck a hold in the end and drain the egg out the shell is good eye appeal and will hold a lure fairly protected.
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Thanks for the info I’ve got more egg’s than I know what to do with tried selling them when eggs was high and done well but when they came back down can’t hardly give them away so I thought why not use them on the trapline
I did this one time with rich duck eggs. I think I have a formula somewhere using eggs. I’ll look for it.
Well it’s an old time formula for sure but Wiley Carrol got it somewhere.
Take a dozen fertile eggs, break in jar and bury in ground 60 days
Add 1/2 tablespoon of household ammonia and three table spoons of fish oil.
It should be pasty in 60 days and have a lure consistency
He mentions a couple times in his book that rotten eggs and chicken feathers are attractive to cats,
I’ll add, Stacey used to raise African Serval cats. When she’d use ammonia or bleach to clean the concrete pads the cats loved it and got squirrelly like you’d think catnip would do to them.
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I believe I’ll get me a batch going today
You can adjust accordingly. With four dozen eggs in a jar just adjust your othervamounts. If it works let us know.
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I know I’ve had good results with hamburger and blue cheese dressing mixed together for coyotes but I got some of that stuff started that you told me about I’ll let you know what happens
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Robert Campbell, an old lure maker had a recipe using eggs, blue cheese, and chicken livers and sardines packed in oil. rotted down to a liquid. aged a long time. then preserved. food type of lure.
He called this “So Good it’s Bad”.
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So was it just a k9 cat lure or good for other stuff too.
Colt
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I believe it was made for canines. He also had a fermented corn bait. Smelled like rotten corn but it was thick like a paste. He also had a lure that he called “Fox Buster”. He told me a little about it. Said the base was scalded cream of chicken soup. Robert was stationed on the Aleutian island of Adak. The U.S. thought if the Russians would invade they would come by Alaska. The U.S. had a small army set up to hold back the Russian advance long enough to get the U.S. forces there to stop the advance. Robert said we were supposed to attack them with gorilla warfare Hit and run / sabotage. Anyway, Robert said the cook had burned some cream of chicken soup and had poured it outside around one of the buildings. He said the foxes were digging at it and seemed to really like it.
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1 of my great granddaddy was staitioned there in ww2 I assume that’s the time he was as well.
Korea, He was early navy seal. special forces. After he left Korea he spent the rest of his time there on Adak. He told me that he had access to a “whale boat” is what he called it, and plenty of fuel. anyway,
he said he had ordered traps in Anchorage and had them shipped to him. Said he trapped silver fox on some of the islands that the Russians had raised there for a fur harvest farm. Shipped the furs to Anchorage fur buyer. Very interesting man. He had all kinds of stories. Good man also. Fearless.
The Greatest Generation are about all gone now. Picked up granddaughter at school with blue haired moms still in pajamas while a little boy was screaming curse words on the playground……with teachers present.
I’ll tell ya all another. He said that sometimes there was much to do there. There was a bunch of WW2 steel lockers with locks still on them. He said it looked like when the men that was stationed there before him just got up and left. They would cut off the locks of the old lockers to see if they could find some things. Also said one day they went out and caught a bunch of salmon. When one of the ranking officers heard about if the office approached them and told them that he would like to have some smoked salmon. Well Robert says " We need some wood to smoke the fish". One of the said hammer handles! The officer wrote out a request to get all the hammer and axe handles they needed for the smoker.
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Thank you all for the feedback on the eggs since I have an abundance of eggs I can put them to good use
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I’d be pickling some. I always have a big jar of some type of pickled eggs in the frig 
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