Should you wash eggs? The pros and cons

For the egg test put it in a cup of water if it sinks it's good, floats it's bad stays in the middle use it soon

Thank you for sharing the pros/cons! We’ve never washed our eggs because we didn’t want to remove the bloom, but I always wondered what to do with the “icky” eggs. (Usually ones that got kicked out of the nest boxes and onto the coop floor.)

I have a related question - if anyone has an answer, please feel free to chime in. Do you mark the date the eggs were laid? We don’t refrigerate ours and we want to make sure we used them in the proper amount of time. If you mark the eggs with a date, what’s a safe writing utensil to use? I know I’ve seen images somewhere on this site of eggs with dates written on them. What is considered safe?

Clear and easy to read, good points made.

Informative, well-written and organised. Overall great article!

Very nicely organized and informative.

Maybe you'd like to also include that if incubating these icky eggs, generally we don't wash them either. The reason is no bloom, then bacteria can enter the egg and perhaps kill the embryo.

You could also have a link or two to where further information about the subject is in case someone would like to read more about this.

Nice job!

Goes through the pros and cons in a quick guide.