Yeah, I know people who would feed them to their chickens...supposedly the calcium in them made the shells of the LATER batches stronger.
Heh...when we were little, Mom used to always crack eggs, then put the shells back in the carton, so we'd end up with a carton full of broken shells, which would then get thrown out. It drove Dad crazy...finally he asked her why she did it, and she said because HER Mom did that. We got around to asking Grandma at some point and she said she did it because HER Mom did it...because they would give them to the chickens.
I'm finally breaking the tradition on that, at least for not.
Um...last phrase should be "At least for now".
I'd still like to have chickens someday. Maybe.
Interesting tradition! Maybe I should break some eggs for the turkeys in the backyard :) They seem to be mating about now. The males have been showing off for a few weeks now :)
Another thing we did when I was little was that my Grandpa used to feed breadcrumbs to the ducks down by the lake. But now the geese have gotten overpopulated and become a nuisance, so they made that illegal.
I usually put eggshells in the compost pile.