I should take pictures of all the weird things I find on my eggs. Muddy lately so lots of mud, reddish spots/specks...still taste great unfortunately an occasion bit of poo...don't wash b/c shells are porous and that would likely force bacteria in. My girls are happy and healthy so I don't worry about the occasional egg wackiness....store bought eggs are picked through so you don't get to see anything that would be perceived as icky.
The pix you uploaded actually looks like a scratch from a sharp set of nails...maybe your gals were fighting over whose turn it was to use the nesting box...lol.
Girls are soooo catty!!!
Here is a photo of recently laid eggs...remember the vent does it all! So seeing a bit of poo...well let's just be vulgar and say if human babies came out of our a**'s they'd probably have some poo on them too. Specks...likely blood...come on ladies who've been thru child birth...our poor gals do a fair amount of straining themselves.
I have a daughter who is not afraid to pick up eggs or large chicken muddy (lots of rain here lately), not wash her hands...and not b/c I didn't say it 15 times as she walked into the house, go dig into the snack pantry right into a bag of pretzels and start munching away.
I blame all of this on the media hype of salmonella from eggs....of course those nasty, over-crowed, commercial hen house eggs need to be pasteurized, they also get picked through for perfect eggs so consumers have a misconception of what natural eggs look like. I live 55 miles from where Frank Purdue grew up and the large chicken processing plant is still up and running.
Did you know that workers need to go into the large, enclosed chicken houses daily to p/u the dead chickens and toss them out. These chickens never go outside, have a light on 24/7 and are basically treated like dog poo.
You are less likely to get sick from your fresh eggs than a bag of spinach you buy from your supermarket....unless it's the frozen variety.
B/c we give so many of our eggs away I do use the "dirty" ones when I make my daughter her daily sunny side up so guilty of keeping the misconception alive by giving the "clean" eggs to friends. But they don't know what I know. My girls are happy, healthy and lay the yummiest eggs ever!!
I seen shell-less eggs, egg-less eggs (the fart egg-don't blame me I didn't invent the term), body-checked eggs, the bonus double yolk and countless over cuckoo looking eggs and I'm a newbie to all of this.
Mother nature isn't perfect...don't expect a perfect looking egg every time unless you go to your local grocer....ewww!
Our only issue right now is an unexpected winter molt in one of our BOs...she is not laying, possibly a bit colder than the rest but otherwise perfectly normal as far a mother nature is concerned!
The pix you uploaded actually looks like a scratch from a sharp set of nails...maybe your gals were fighting over whose turn it was to use the nesting box...lol.
Girls are soooo catty!!!
Here is a photo of recently laid eggs...remember the vent does it all! So seeing a bit of poo...well let's just be vulgar and say if human babies came out of our a**'s they'd probably have some poo on them too. Specks...likely blood...come on ladies who've been thru child birth...our poor gals do a fair amount of straining themselves.
I have a daughter who is not afraid to pick up eggs or large chicken muddy (lots of rain here lately), not wash her hands...and not b/c I didn't say it 15 times as she walked into the house, go dig into the snack pantry right into a bag of pretzels and start munching away.
I blame all of this on the media hype of salmonella from eggs....of course those nasty, over-crowed, commercial hen house eggs need to be pasteurized, they also get picked through for perfect eggs so consumers have a misconception of what natural eggs look like. I live 55 miles from where Frank Purdue grew up and the large chicken processing plant is still up and running.
Did you know that workers need to go into the large, enclosed chicken houses daily to p/u the dead chickens and toss them out. These chickens never go outside, have a light on 24/7 and are basically treated like dog poo.
You are less likely to get sick from your fresh eggs than a bag of spinach you buy from your supermarket....unless it's the frozen variety.
B/c we give so many of our eggs away I do use the "dirty" ones when I make my daughter her daily sunny side up so guilty of keeping the misconception alive by giving the "clean" eggs to friends. But they don't know what I know. My girls are happy, healthy and lay the yummiest eggs ever!!
I seen shell-less eggs, egg-less eggs (the fart egg-don't blame me I didn't invent the term), body-checked eggs, the bonus double yolk and countless over cuckoo looking eggs and I'm a newbie to all of this.
Mother nature isn't perfect...don't expect a perfect looking egg every time unless you go to your local grocer....ewww!
Our only issue right now is an unexpected winter molt in one of our BOs...she is not laying, possibly a bit colder than the rest but otherwise perfectly normal as far a mother nature is concerned!
