Can I see the inside of your eggs?

[meadowsong]

I know we have a thread of the outers, but can I see what your eggs look like inside?

My yolks all look perfect, nice, round, and golden, but there is a lot of watery stuff outside and I'm wondering if this is okay? I've seen it in some free-range eggs we get from the farmers market, but not all of them.

This is our first egg from our Red Star. Actually her first 3 were like this, she just started laying and we haven't crack the others open yet. Although I'm guessing they are probably all this way?

They tasted fine, I made scrambled eggs with them

Just wondering if all the watery stuff is normal or not or if there is anything we need to be doing differently.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

Pullets will invariably produce funky eggs until thier "machinery" is going.

Put down LOTS of layer rations (16 percent) and LOTS of water.

I do not even mess with pullet eggs until the birds are about 8 months old.

I feed mine to my dog and the barn cats and throw the rest not used away or give them away.

 

[meadowsong]

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Wow, really? What are your main reasons for not eating them then? Just curious, I've never heard of anyone doing that so I'm curious for the reasons why.

I know they can be funky until everything is working well.........but I don't plan on not eating them.

 

[Kezzie]

My pullet eggs are small but delicious. I can't imagine not eating them!

 

[gritsar]

That looks like a normal pullet egg to me. As rimshoes said, pullets can lay some strange eggs until they get the egg factory up and running good.
My DH was the same way. He wouldn't eat pullet eggs, until I refused to buy any more store bought eggs when I had plenty of pullet eggs in the frig. Then he ate them just fine.

 

[Emzyyy]

My chickens eat most of the eggs. I take about 1-3 a day and the rest the chickens break open and eat.

 

[Guinea Goonie]

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Wow, really? What are your main reasons for not eating them then? Just curious, I've never heard of anyone doing that so I'm curious for the reasons why.

I know they can be funky until everything is working well.........but I don't plan on not eating them.

I bought 18 cinnamon queens from a lady who needed the cash. They were at their peak laying times and they are still at it.

I also have about 10 white rocks and a few leghorns left.

Pullet eggs, who needs pullet eggs.

Sorry, a bit snobish, but those big ol' brown eggs are just delicious.

I have been replacing the queens with black austrolorps, partridge rocks, lakenvelders and GUINEAS. I have grown very partial to Guinea eggs. If you have not tried them, you really should.

The other girls can live out their life here on the farm and I am keeping the rooster population down so they have a peaceful and unstressful life.

 

[Akane]

Fresher eggs will have more extra moisture in them. The longer they sit the more moisture evaporates and the bigger the air sac gets. Opening a newly laid egg will result in more liquid than one that is a week or 2 old. I would think local humidity would also have an impact on the amount of difference.

 

[meadowsong]

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Thanks so much!! That makes sense why there is all that extra "liquid" in our eggs then, right? Like I said, they taste great, so we won't stop eating them. I was just trying to figure out all that extra liquid that was in them.

 

[thespinningcottage]

Well, since that's what we're getting, we're eating them and greatly enjoying them! Most are small to medium so I just used 12 eggs in Terrilacy's 10-egg pound cake. No complaints from the neighbors who grew up eating fresh eggs, either! I guess ignorance (mine) is bliss.