FILTHY EGGS

[Cara]

Do hens wash their eggs before setting?

 

[onthespot]

I have never seen a hen wash an egg. I have seen plenty of hens set muddy, (which means they got WET and muddy) eggs and have a terrible hatch rate. When you give away eggs, it is bad enough to send "junk eggs" but if you are selling, you should expect clean, decent eggs. If you can't provide, just communicate and say it's too muddy right now, no clean eggs available, show the muddy ones and see if the buyer is happy with that before you send.

Anyone here want to pay full price for my marans eggs that get poop all over them, or slightly dinged in my pocket, or that the hens were mud wrasslin' before they decided to lay that day?

 

[pascopol]

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There is no excuse to ship dirty eggs.
If one keeps the nests clean having clean hay, straw or wood chips in them, the eggs will be clean.

Chickens do not lay eggs covered with manure, if they are covered with manure that is cause they were layed on manure.

If the eggs are covered with manure, chances are they are contaminated by now and will not hatch.

When I tried to incubate dirty shipped eggs they never hatched or they exploded stinking off and contaminated the whole batch.



Contact the seller and demand replacement of clean eggs.

 

[dddCT]

I will be setting the other eggs I received today in a separate incubator so as to not contaminate them with these. I have contacted the seller and stated I was disappointed with the condition of the eggs. I hope they offer to refund. I will set these anyway but away from the other eggs as I said and hope they don't explode and stink my house.