Dirty eggs, wash or don’t wash?

[birdbrain5]

I am selling my chicken eggs, and my 9 hens refuse to use more than one nest box. So they all pile in either together or one right after another and all of my eggs end up dirty on rainy wet days. Totally u appealing. I know most people say not to wash eggs, but how do you sell someone dirty eggs? No one wants those. How do you clean them up?

 

[FunClucks]

What I use. Works well for me. Soak them in this soap in warm water for ten minutes, scrub them with a microfiber cloth using the cleaning solution, then place them in a bowl of clean warm water until all eggs are scrubbed. Drain and refill bowl of scrubbed eggs with fresh warm water a few times, drain water, dry each egg with a towel, place in egg carton and then into the fridge. Time intensive, but gorgeous.

https://www.mannapro.com/poultry/supplements-care/egg-cleanser

 

[gimmie birdies]

I don't wash, but if they are dirty I give them to my dog.

 

[Somshine]

Same here. Mine all like the same boxes. They get to free range everyday so when it's rainy I have to wash them. I use one square of a paper towel with continuously running warmish water. A quick roll around in the wet paper towel under the water always does the job. I lay them on a clean towel after washing them and mist them with peroxide. When they're dry I put them in their cartons and in the fridge.

 

[cubalaya]

For eating eggs, i have always washed with warm water. Never had a problem in 40+ years. Putting unwashed eggs on the counter just seems nasty to me. I always refrigerate after washing.
For hatching eggs, i never wash but try to put the cleanest eggs in the incubator or under the hen

 

[lagrange chicks]

Roll away nesting boxes and always have clean eggs, never had to wash any eggs with my roll away boxes.

 

[Obsessed With Silkies]

We sell extra eggs that we have to our neighbors. We always wash ours with cold water and use a scrub like brush to get the dirty stuff off. Then we just tell people to refrigerate the eggs.

 

[BantyChooks]

I regularly wash eggs meant for consumption and then refrigerate. Hatching eggs I have yet to wash. If I did, I would use an appropriate cleaning solution and then keep the incubator as clean as possible to avoid infection.

 

[FunClucks]

I did three hatches where I washed them with H2O2 prior to setting them in the incubator. All chickens that were fertilized developed for both hatches, only a couple eggs per hatch didn't make it all the way. Any differences in hatch rate seemed to have a lot more to do with my roo doing his job and the genetics of the parent stock than any cleaning I did.