Not sure if I should clean eggs...

[ChickensAreSweet]

I wash all our eggs with Egg Washer Pro and feel better about it. And I scrub the egg lightly with a sponge after dousing it with the solution and run it under very warm water.

Our eggs smell a little "unpleasant" before they are washed. I haven't smelled them afterward.

We like to boil our eggs a lot, and sometimes one of them cracks open. If I hadn't scrubbed the eggs first, I would feel funny about eating the cracked ones.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

The smell is coming from my eggshells. Sometimes the egg innards are a little whiffy too.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I have never noticed a smell coming from my eggs. Now I am going to have to go and sniff my eggs, next time I get one.
I don't wash my eggs. I figure mother nature provided a perfectly good protective coating to keep the chicks safe for at least 21 day and that is good enough for me. If one is particularly poopy, I give it to the dog. Sometimes I will wash a dirty egg just before I use it.
I don't care for sterile food, I don't live in a sterile world, my stomach gets upset, when I eat sterile foodstuff.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

I prefer doing things the natural way. The eggs did not smell funny at first. I suspect that it may be related to their food and/or water, but I have no practical way to experiment much with that. I am using Dumor layer pellets. Plan to switch back to M-G 20 as soon as this bag is done.

 

[HHandbasket]

Personally, I wouldn't eat an egg that had a funny smell. It shouldn't have a funny smell. A funny/foul smell is almost 100% sure sign something's wrong with the egg. Even when I've had a few (rare) eggs that had poop streaks on 'em, but even so, there was no strong or noticeable smell. There should be no noticeable smell to an unwashed egg.

 

[cockadoodledean]

I've never had a funky smelling egg, I've heard if you feed them any type of fish/seafood that will make the egg smell. I agree w/ PP, even the ones that are a little poopy don't smell and they're in the fridge where I'd definately notice it.

 

[chickbird]

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eggs should be washed for your own use and for those you give or sell to others.

 

[Highlander]

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eggs should be washed for your own use and for those you give or sell to others.

Why?

 

[booker81]

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I'm going this route

We usually collect our eggs daily, keep them at room temp on the counter, and once a week or so, I wash/ rinse them off and pack them, and then they hit the fridge. Part of my rinsing is giving them a good squeeze, as I still get about one or two thin shelled eggs a week (I crush the shell up and feed it back to the chickens in this case).

As for storing and washing, the best article ever

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

Unwashed, fertile homestead eggs seem to store much better than washed, unfertile agribiz eggs. Why? Probably for the simple reason that they're unwashed ... and not because they're fertile. Hen fruit, as it comes from the chicken, is coated with a light layer of a natural sealing agent called "bloom". And, while a good wash may make a batch of eggs look more attractive, it also removes this natural protective coating ... leaving the eggs more subject to aging and attack by the air and bacteria in the air.

Of course, I have no intention of storing eggs for 7 months, so I just let em sit and then make em pretty to sell.

 

[abhaya]

I dont wash my eggs unless they have poo on them then I wipe it off with a dry rag if possible to leave the bloom intact.