Eggs..........to wash or not to wash?

[Wildsky]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=272371

There is another thread, there are a few if you use the search function and can read what everyone else does.

 

[WildBurroShirts.com]

My first batch of chickens were...ladies. They went into the nest box, laid and egg, and left.

These rowdy, noisy, filthy hooligan wild things that are just now coming up on point of lay are DETERMINED to poop in the nest boxes, no matter how many times I or the adult girls chase them out!

So all of a sudden, I'm having to wash eggs. Since I'm organic I bought the organic enzyme wash (I think from either McMurry or eggcartons.com).

But I hate washing eggs and I'm about to rig up a scat mat for those brats!!!

 

[cook_kaka_ook]

They say that if you plan in having them hatched never wash them. Porous shell + washing = bacteria forming in the eggs.

 

[bywaterdog]

I wash all of my eggs, chickens are NOT clean [what won't they eat?]
We know that they eat mice,snakes, baby anything and anything else that they can grab. These are the same beaks that they roll their eggs with, after 25+ years with them I've never seen one use a napkin after dining or wash their feet.

 

[Dar]

Quote:
here's your requested poll

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=278885

 

[chickendude]

My girls don't poo in the nest boxes. Their eggs are getting some mud from their feet and only when it is rainy or the run is muddy. Now the ground is frozen all the eggs are clean.

 

[Alice EG]

Nope! Although sometimes I wipe them off right before using them, if they're particularly dirty for some reason.

If I was selling them, I probably would. But me, I could care less what they look like, only how they taste.

I've heard if you don't wash them(and therefore remove the bloom) they can stay good on your counter for about a month. It makes sense; otherwise the chicks wouldn't last long in there, would they? Not that I'd recommend anybody doing that without research first. But we store ours in the pantry, and haven't eaten a bad egg yet.

 

[Chris623]

Just for the record, I don't use soap.............just water. I was just curious if I were doing something wrong.

 

[ChickensRCool]

A worker at a historical farm in Ohio told me that unwashed eggs can sit on the counter for up to a month -- that's what all famers did way back when. My mother was raised on a chicken farm and she claims it is best to use sandpaper on the dirty ones. I wash only the really dirty ones.

 

[sundance]

I use cool water and dawn dish detergent marrie