dirty eggs

Hey guys! I’ve had my chickens for just a little less than a year. I have 4 large hens and a silkie :) all my hens lay in the same nesting box. I change all their nest bedding and all the other pine shavings (under their perch) at the same time. Usually clean out every 2 weeks. I hadn’t checked...

Broody Hen sitting on 9 eggs I check periodically. She is due to hatch any day now. now there were only 5 eggs, that are all covered in gunk and it smells totally rotten under there. Poor thing, it really stinks. this could have been like this for a few days already. Should I remove...

Hi everyone, So... I have a chicken that is sitting on some eggs. it is day 21 today from when I first noticed her sitting. During this period about 3 eggs broke. I cleaned the nesting box out as best I could without washing the eggs. However some of the eggs are a little dirty bit of egg my...

I have four hens all around 6 1/2 months old. They are all laying eggs completely normally and eating fine. It seems like out of nowhere my hens developed really dirty butts. What could be causing this? And how can I treat it?

Hey guys! My rooster went down unexpectedly today and I was going to try and panic hatch the last clutch to try and get another rooster. I need every last leghorn egg I can get and even debated on pulling some from my fridge 😂 are the two gross eggs in the picture below okay to hatch? Annnnd I...

Hello, I have been incubating silkie chicken eggs for 8 days now and I just read something about not putting dirty eggs in the incubator. I already put a dirty egg as shown in the pic and was wondering if it would be fine. I candled them yesterday and everything seemed to be fine with the embryo...

I have a 4 yr. Old hen, Lucy Langshan who has been broody more times than I can count, and hatched numerous chicks. She is sitting on 5 eggs. They are about 8 days in. Yesterday she broke an egg, she cleaned it up but there is egg goop on the other eggs. I candled them last night and I can see...

What is the best way to clean chicken bottoms? My girls have some serious build up on their fluffy exteriors which of course gets on the eggs. Can I spray their backsides down ? There are about 8 that could use a cleaning . thank you

I came across this interesting video upon researching a statement made previously by a potential egg customer here and at my self service egg stand. I keep a big metal bell on my egg stand for customers to let me know if they need change or if I have sold out. Yesterday the bell sounded and I...

Hi, my neighbor (he doesn’t live there, he just works the land) has been wanting some ducks on his pond (where he lives) since we got ours. We were hoping to incubate some for him that our ducks have laid. Some of our eggs are a bit dirty, our ducks could care less where they lay :rolleyes...

hi, so a friend had her nesting geese attacked by egg thieving raccoons... the geese are fine, but she tried to relocate the nest and remaining 2 eggs into a coop and they abandoned their eggs and went nuts trying to get out. So I whipped out the incubator and got it heated up and I’ve got them...

I have searched and found that it is best not to clean duck eggs but I currently have 3 out of 7 girls laying eggs and out of the 12 ducks in the house the eggs become a toy and are always in a pile of poop. I have thrown the ones they crack away. I want to be safe but I also want to eat healthy...

I have 6 girls who just started laying regularly. We are a challenge and I was hoping to get opinions/advice. Our coop has the nesting boxes attached to it. Unfortunately one of my girls refuses to roost, she prefers to sleep in a nesting box. Prior to them laying I had the boxes blocked...

I have 5 eggs. The first egg pipped in day 25 and took 49 hours to hatch. Then 3 more hatched after that. I have on left in the incubator. I can hear him in his shell peeping but the incubator is so dirty and smells bad from the other 4 that hatched. Is bacteria a problem? Will it make him sick...

I fed my chickens this as a treat and half of their eggs had a lot of poop on them, three were very small and strange markings in three others. All in the pictures including the treat. Thanks, Shelby

our 3 hens are6 moths old They would never go to the bathroom in there nest boxes or shelter area.It was supper clean. The hens would also sleep outside on pearch, now that it Is colder they sleep in shelter and this seems to be when poop on eggs started. I give them organic feed and the eggs...