Good Morning everyone.... I have a question for all.... I have read soooo many different threads, and I can't seem to get the answer to this exact question. We have several chickens, that have been laying for about a year, and we just got our new group this April and so we will have more laying soon. We seem to have such a steady flow of friends and family who want to "buy" our eggs. I get somewhat nervous still on the proper egg handling procedures, but we gather and store our eggs everyday. Most of the eggs I just package up and put into the fridge. If they have a really bad area of poo or blood spots or something, I will wipe that area off, but I never completely wash an egg, in hopes to not spoil the natural bloom. So at this point, I usually have someone that wants that days eggs. They are never more than a day or two old when I sell them. I had a question from my cousin on the last dozen he had. He said that when he went to boil the eggs for hard-boiled eggs, that 4 of them floated. So he threw them out assuming they were bad.... So my question is, can one of my chickens "lay a bad egg"? The eggs that he was boiling were less than a week old... And they went from my fridge to his. So I just took my eggs (6) from yesterday. They were on my back counter since the afternoon. In the air conditioned house. (Unwashed and unrefrigerated yet). I filled a pan with water, and put the 6 in and 2 stood straight up and lifted to the top of the water. The other 4 lay flat on the bottom... So my question is, are they really bad? I just can't seem to find any threads that address an egg that floats that is literally less than 24 hours old. I can't believe that it could be bad unless a chicken can lay a bad egg?
I would really really appreciate anyone's expertise on this, because I don't want to ever tell anyone the wrong thing when it comes to our eggs, and then someone gets sick... I would feel aweful!!! Thanks to everyone for any input....
Molly
I would really really appreciate anyone's expertise on this, because I don't want to ever tell anyone the wrong thing when it comes to our eggs, and then someone gets sick... I would feel aweful!!! Thanks to everyone for any input....
Molly