New layers......

[murdeb]

My 2 BO's starting laying a few weeks ago and two days in a row I found an egg that was wet, seemed to have some type of watery substance on it, is this normal?

 

[lolita117]

Those are freshly laid eggs! When a chicken lays her eggs there is the wet stuff all over it. Soon it dries. This coating protects the egg for air and microbes. Don't worry, its normal.

 

[lotzahenz]

They do come out wet of course and soft, but harden and dry as the air hits them. That is why bits of straw/grass/shavings sticks to them. Sounds normal to me, unless the shell is really soft.

 

[Nikki82]

The eggs I get are like that if I get them right after they were laid. After a couple minutes they are dry. It's just the natural 'lubrication' that they need to be laid...

 

[Fierlin1182]

That is strange! I don't seem to get that. I've picked up eggs less than a minute after they were laid, fresh from Chicken, and they're perfectly dry with nothing stuck to them. It must be the weather here. It's too hot for anyone's good.