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Hmmm, I will look closely this evening to see if I find any egg shell remnants if it occurs today. I always inspect eggs for cracks and defects because I sell my eggs. The slimed eggs seem perfectly normal and intact. If I do occasionally find a cracked egg (usually from too many eggs in the...

Btw, whenever someone slimes the nest, it dirties all the eggs in there. So annoying because I'd rather not have to clean them to protect the bloom.

Sometimes there is clearly yellow slime. Not a fully intact yolk. Here's an example from eggs I collected yesterday. However it isn't always yellow. Sometimes it is just a clear glob. The nesting material is usually wet when I find these things. No obvious egg shell remnants that I see.

How can you tell? What might I see if it is just heavy bloom?

Yeah, there's no egg shell pieces. Just slime in the straw and on the other eggs.

I have a question I've always wondered about.... I've noticed that many times when I collect eggs they are slimy with sticky clear goo (egg whites?) or yolk on the outside. When this first happened, I panicked and thought one of my chickens was egg bound. I have a lot of chickens (35+ laying...