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

[RubelliteRose]

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.

This is true for my flock too. Sometimes very poopy eggs, MUCH dirtier than the ones in the picture, are feed back to my flock if I don't feel like cleaning them that day. When I have one of these eggs, I bring it into the run and everyone gathers around. If I throw the egg to the ground and it doesn't break, all the chickens stare at the egg and then at me as if to say "why are you throwing our eggs around Mom?" If I throw the egg again and it breaks, they turn into a school of piranha, devouring the egg in seconds. Only broken eggs are consumed. Even shell less eggs are left alone if they are intact.
We refrigerate all eggs unwashed unless they are pretty dirty. If dirty, we rinse them off in water warmer than the egg before refrigerating. We do rinse eggs before using.

I wanna add gravel and all sorts of stuff mulch

We get some flooding from heavy rains and wind driven flooding. I would not recommend gravel or sand. The poop will not break down and the gravel will start to reek. We had sand in our original set up. After two years, it smelled so bad we had to remove it. We spread it out on the driveway and it continued to smell for months

 

[Snoopchick]

Interesting debate. I don't wash our eggs or refrigerate them either. Some of them do get dirty but I leave them like that on the kitchen counter until I'm ready to use them and then wash them if they are dirty. I also give the chickens back the shells.