Eggs what do you do if they are dirty and how dirty is acceptable? Maybe you could show me your eggs you collect?

[ClickityChick123]

For one, you could collect them every day so that they don't have as much time to get dirty. I suggest you don't throw away any eggs at all, they don't even look that dirty to me, but if you are going to throw them away, don't give them to your chickens with their shell on because they might start looking at their eggs as food and that just makes the eggs even more dirty if they have raw egg all over them.

 

[rosemarythyme]

What the difference versus leaving them on the counter..? Just wondering

Refrigeration slows bacterial growth as well as lengthens shelf life. Even with bloom left intact eggs at room temperature don't stay "fresh" as long as ones kept at a constant cold temperature. Since we're heading into winter I'm stockpiling eggs now for use 3, 4, 5 months from now, which is only possible with refrigeration or some other form of preservation like water glassing or freeze drying.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Since you sell them do you ever just stop at others to see what theirs is like. I always thought about just stopping by to see what its like and just bc i stopped i would probably buy a doz. Just to be nice. I always wonder how many people stop by to buy them. My husband sells ours at his work but someday I'd like to have a stand for eggs and vegetables and such. How do you sell yours do you have a stand with a cooler? Do you keep ice in it?

No, I don't do that. In the past when my hens were doing really bad (older and molting), I've had to stop at a stand or two to buy some.
I have someone who buys my eggs in bulk and either sells them in their pastry stand or puts them in their pastries. I believe they have an actual refrigerator in their stand. (They have an actual building that they sell their stuff in.)

Anyhow those are good ideas recently started using old Easter baskets and I have two wire baskets I've wondered about a brush like that. Well I use warm water do you think that matters? I've watched my mom before she has a diluted vinegar spray bottle and wipes them clean with paper towels and let's them air dry. She won't keep any eggs that are dirty but also she has a better chicken coop build n than we do. Hers is all wood and ours is wood with tarp for a roof. Thank you

It doesn't really matter on water temperature, but I wouldn't suggest using hot water. I've used both cold and warm water, but I prefer the warm water for my hands' sake when I'm washing a lot of eggs. Plus I feel like it works faster, even though it probably doesn't effect anything. I don't know about using vinegar though... I'd be worried about it seeping into the shell and effecting taste. (I could be wrong!)

 

[Mother of Chaos]

What the difference versus leaving them on the counter..? Just wondering

Refrigeration slows bacterial growth as well as lengthens shelf life. Even with bloom left intact eggs at room temperature don't stay "fresh" as long as ones kept at a constant cold temperature…

People keep their eggs in a lot of different ways.

We put our unwashed eggs (unwashed to preserve the bloom) in a bowl and store them in the fridge. When we need more eggs for cooking, we egg wash enough for a week or so of eating and then store them in an egg carton, the signal that they’ve been washed.

We don’t (yet) have enough of a surplus to store them up for winter, though.

 

[21hens-incharge]

If washing eggs the water should be hot not cool. Cool water can cause bacteria to seep into the egg through the pores. Think contraction of the egg contents drawing in whatever is on the outside vs expansion with hot water preventing seeping.
Washed eggs have no bloom left so should be refrigerated.

Edited to add...

In nearly 30 years with chickens I have not found that feeding their eggs back to them caused any to become egg eaters.
Broken eggs, thin shelled eggs that get a crack, shell less eggs are always consumed by my birds regardless of if they are in the nest or not.
Curiosity had me wondering so I put a fresh uncracked egg in their dish in the morning right on top of their wet mash. In the evening it was the only thing left in the dish and totally unharmed. Yes I cracked it open for them and they came running to eat the treat.

 

[Beau plus penny]

I sometimes get really dirty eggs and I just throw them in the compost and im continuously adding shavings and cleaning out their nesting boxes and it was really nice when we had a drought i mean I didn't like it for the garden but for the chickens and ducks it was really nice and now im stressed out bc I want to add horse bedding pellets, I have added hay, and grass and its gotten a crust layer on top of the dirt and it was mud for a while and squishy and I've added logs for them to be on and we've dug trenches for the w a tee but we have such flat land it doesn't really go anywhere. When it rains we get so much flooding like in pockets of the yard. I wanna add gravel and all sorts of stuff mulch and we'll I know that will help I just need more advice besides are these eggs okay if they are a little dirty to wash in with vinegar spray and wash cloth bc sometimes I cant get papertowels like I want.. these are the ones I was going to feed back to the chickens bc I cant stand the dirty ones anymore I used to see if I could save them and I just felt like I was spending so much time to clean them sonibquitndoing that and now they wait for me to throw them egg treats, like they know they have eggs in their nesting box when I go to collect eggs. I have ducks and one turkey. I cant some times collect duck eggs bc they look so dirty im just like I cant..

A little dirt never hurt anyone

 

[Luv Ducks]

I sometimes get really dirty eggs and I just throw them in the compost and im continuously adding shavings and cleaning out their nesting boxes and it was really nice when we had a drought i mean I didn't like it for the garden but for the chickens and ducks it was really nice and now im stressed out bc I want to add horse bedding pellets, I have added hay, and grass and its gotten a crust layer on top of the dirt and it was mud for a while and squishy and I've added logs for them to be on and we've dug trenches for the w a tee but we have such flat land it doesn't really go anywhere. When it rains we get so much flooding like in pockets of the yard. I wanna add gravel and all sorts of stuff mulch and we'll I know that will help I just need more advice besides are these eggs okay if they are a little dirty to wash in with vinegar spray and wash cloth bc sometimes I cant get papertowels like I want.. these are the ones I was going to feed back to the chickens bc I cant stand the dirty ones anymore I used to see if I could save them and I just felt like I was spending so much time to clean them sonibquitndoing that and now they wait for me to throw them egg treats, like they know they have eggs in their nesting box when I go to collect eggs. I have ducks and one turkey. I cant some times collect duck eggs bc they look so dirty im just like I cant..

I have eaten duck eggs for years and some dirtier than your pictures and have been just fine. I wash them off in warm water and then just fix them however I want to eat them.