Dirty eggs? What do you do? Clean or leave them?

[Eifelhexe]

hello katharinad

i am from the other end of germany close to the borders to Luxembourg Rheinland Pfalz is the state .

yes the people used vinegar for all kinds of cleaning/desinfecting.
i learned from my grandma and it is in many ways much better then all that chemical stuff like killing odors, keeping flys away, dying easster eggs getting the most shiny windows and so on

but i just dont think its good for washing eggs. i might be wrong but as i wrote above its a way to get shells a little porous
so i cant belive it would be any good for hatching eggs at the beginning

 

[katharinad]

I lived in Worms for a year, that is as close I've gotten to that end of Germany. I've taken a look at your webpage. You have done a wonderful job of restoring the old farm house. I really love the exposed stone work. We've bought a small farm too, but it did not contain a old house. It was a divorce case and they pretty much messed everything up. We've spend an entire summer fixing and cleaning up. It never ends as I add more and more things like a pond, etc. I'm now raising German Saxony ducks.

I've read in several books that you should always increase the humidity by 10% when washing eggs. I wonder, if they did that on the farm. I wish I had been older so I would know. My job was to collect the eggs from the chicken and get my hands picked while at it. I also had to feed the pigs. Anyway duck eggs can be quite dirty so I do clean them.

Katharina

 

[Eifelhexe]

thank you, yeah it was a lot of work and i am still not done and probably never will
always new projects going on

i have some eggs in the incubator at the moment and they were very dirty when i got them.
so i soaked them for like 10 seconds in water and wiped just a little with a cottonball so at least the thick crusts came off wich they did really easy.

i hope that didnt hurt them but i dont belive it.

Monika