NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lynzi777]

I wash my duck eggs cuz they are nasty when I collect them. I even wiped down the ones I hatched pretty good and 4 out of 5 still hatched! My Orp eggs? Clean as a whistle when I collect them so they go right to the egg carton!

 

[Cass]

I tell my two main customers that I don't wash the eggs and why and they they last longer when not washed - they accept my reasoning since I am the raising the chickens or they pass ... obviously they love my eggs and 2 customers is all I need.....

I educated them, and they are fine with poop smear or whatever. Now - sometimes you know an egg comes smushed in poopy goo - those eggs I also set aside and feed back to the chickens in an omlet. (cooking any possible bacteria).

I don't wash them, but I do clean them up a bit, slightly damp paper towel if they are "muddy". I have explained to people, and one googled it to check. They love them. My two best customers are on long trips, however. I sure do miss them.

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I both tell and give it to my customers in writing what I do with my eggs. I have more customers than I have eggs during the summer. (during the winter I would still have more customers than eggs, but both are reduced in quantity due to my driveway being a nightmere and my hens being to stubborn to lay in the bitter cold. LOL)

Here is what I give my customers:

" Eggs are clean, but not washed. For Maximum safety wash under warm water before cracking OR be sure to cook well before eating.

Eggs are collected twice a day so there is no possiblity of finding a growing chick inside of one. They are NOT candled so there is a possiblity of finding blood or "meat" spots in them. If this possiblity bothers you crack them in a separate bowl before adding them to your recipe and scoop out anything undesireable. (I find blood spots in 1 out of ever 15-18 eggs I crack) Please let me know if you feel you have to throw away an egg due to contents. I will gladly replace the egg with your next purchase.

Eggs are very fresh. (sometimes laid the same day you buy them) If you want to hard boil them and peel them, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to water.

Please return your egg cartons. All cartons are reused and printing on them does not reflect the current contents.

2 large Store bought eggs = 1/3 cup of egg."

 

[Cass]

Wow, I'm kind of surprised that no one really washes their eggs. I let mine soak then scrub them. I may have to rethink my ways, though no one has ever gotten sick in my house or my Mil's. We don't get enough to sell(yet)

Even commerical egg farms don't soak their eggs. I am glad you haven't had a problem....it speaks volumes about the care you take of your chickens. Since your chickens are clean and disease free your eggs are also. But you might want to rethink the soaking....in doing so one contaminated egg contaminates ALL the others. (not to meantion if the container you soak them in is contaminated you are adding germs to the eggs instead of taking them away)

 

[Cass]

I wash my duck eggs cuz they are nasty when I collect them. I even wiped down the ones I hatched pretty good and 4 out of 5 still hatched! My Orp eggs? Clean as a whistle when I collect them so they go right to the egg carton!

Now DUCK EGGS? That's a whole nother story. HOW do they get so dirty? And HOW do ducklings hatch out of such yucky looking egg shells? LOL I swear both my female ducks stuck their butt in a puddle THEN lay their egg. Gross. Yucky. I would still only wash them before I cracked them however, but I would wipe off the worst of the muck before I put them aside for eating.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

I don't have any idea what's wrong but did you say that the top of her head is also swollen?

Yeah, a little...but I think its more just swollen where the comb connects, and isn't actually the head itself.

 

[Metella]

From that angle it looks like a splinter or something got in there and the flesh is irritated and trying to push the nasty thing out ...

 

[melbu23]

Is there any evidence of injury or puncture? Looks like it got worse from the previous picture you posed. If that it true, I would lean toward infection? Hope that's all it is and not something more serious.

 

[Sweetpea3829]

Is there any evidence of injury or puncture? Looks like it got worse from the previous picture you posed. If that it true, I would lean toward infection? Hope that's all it is and not something more serious.

Not that I can see....there is a slight area that looks like it may have been bleeding. The chick is otherwise healthy and eating fine...no other issues.

 

[Sally8]

Not that I can see....there is a slight area that looks like it may have been bleeding. The chick is otherwise healthy and eating fine...no other issues.

I'm hesitant to say this but if she were mine I would probably try something like a clean needle and pierce the swollen part to see if pus comes out. If it does I would manually and softly try to get more out, then use an antibiotic ointment on it.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=879236845426979

This is a very funny video of a Mercedes commercial and then jaguars answer to the commercial. Live chickens were used. I had a good laugh at this one!