Hard yolks I’m shipped eggs...

[cowgirlup11]

I got eggs shipped to me that I set 6 days ago. When I candled them before setting all the air cells were totally destroyed. I thought I would set them anyway just in case. I allowed them to rest 24 hours beforehand and stored and incubated them upright. Day 6 I candled them and not a single one was any good. When we cracked them open we found three things. Either 1: They were totally scrambled! There was no way to distinguish the yolk from the whites.
2e whites (if they weren’t scrambled) or scrambled mess (if they were) were reddish coloured? No bad smell.
Or 3: the yolks were hard! Like a really thick jelly that I could actually pull out of the egg with tweezers!
Why?! What could this be? And how on earth did they get THAT scrambled?!
I have eggs from other sources in the incubator as well and all are fine!

 

[sylviethecochin]

don't know about the other two, but 3. comes from frozen eggs. I'd bet the post office truck wasn't very careful.

 

[alexa009]

I imagine they were scrambled from being roughly handled during the shipping process. That is the risk you take when purchasing shipped eggs. I definitely wouldn't recommend the source you ordered from ever again.

 

[BuChix]

That's crazy about the scrambled yolk. I tried to do that trick where you shake and spin an egg around rather aggressively, which then you hard boil so you'd be peeling a solid yellow egg. I can personally attest that it takes A LOT of abuse to get it to that point. Even put one in a stocking, spun it around really tight in one direction and let it spin itself back around and that didn't do the trick.