OMGoodness..WHAT IS THIS!

[Folly's place]

It's like opening eggs that have been under a broody hen and not hatched. I don't do it, because of the lovely smells. Yuck!
Mary

 

[Chickassan]

@Bettyboop7499 What tickles me the most about your egg is you shook it and survived.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

It's like opening eggs that have been under a broody hen and not hatched. I don't do it, because of the lovely smells. Yuck!
Mary

Any eggs in my incubator that didn't develop or quit early enough to not gross me out get scrambled or boiled and fed back to my animals even at day 18. They are not rotten... just runny... and I suspect lower in nutrients.

Thinking of hatching eggs... There is a period of time where hatch is expected to get it's best results... always stored at room temp... in order to prevent sweating... hatch-ability drops off... WHY is this??? Changes take place inside the egg... including PH (though it usually reaches a certain place and stabilizes).

Ok..I tried but could you be a little more specific maybe which page of the 18 page scientific equations that has this info because I'm not a scientist

Yes, I am no scientist either. But let me see if I can help a little..

Excerpts taken from my link...
"Egg quality can be affected by the environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity of storage as well as the gaseous environment and storage time. Storage can modify some characteristics of the egg including loss of water, carbon dioxide and a subsequent increase in the pH of the albumen (Decuypere et al. 2001). The reason for these changes is that the porous shell of egg allows escape of carbon dioxide and moisture resulting in loss of weight. Storage time causes various physical, chemical and biological changes in a food product; therefore the changes in the rheological properties of a food product are also expected."

"Eggs deteriorate rapidly during storage under ambient conditions but deteriorate at a decreased rate under the low temperature storage. Room temperature in the Northern region of India varies considerably throughout the year could be as high as 30°C in the dry hot season when ambient temperature reaches 40–45°C and as low as 15°C in the winter when ambient temperature reaches as low as 5–10°C. Therefore the deterioration rate may differ with respect to the seasons."

"In case of eggs stored at room temperature the Haugh unit decreased from 85.04 to 64.39 as compared to the eggs stored at refrigeration temperature, where Haugh unit changed from 86.69 to 81.25 in the same time period"

"The quality of an egg is affected by the method and length of storage. Eggs kept at high temperature deteriorated in quality at a faster rate than eggs stored under refrigeration. Refrigerated eggs were able to maintain their quality comparable to the fresh eggs. In their findings Raji et al. (2009) concluded that oiling of eggs also maintained egg quality to some extent but oiling is not a replacement for refrigeration. It may however serve for 28 days where refrigeration facilities are not available. In the hot dry climate, where ambient temperatures can reach 40–45°C, eggs should not be stored at room temperature, for more than one week before consumption"

" The effect of storage time and temperature on physical and quality attributes was also studied, which showed an increase in pH and density and decrease in Haugh unit with increasing storage time at both temperatures. The shell egg samples also showed a decrease in average weight in both cases, whereas the sample stored at refrigeration temperature has showed less change in physical and quality parameters during the same period of time as compared to samples stored at room temperature."

Okay... I didn't quite establish my 1 day on the counter is equal to 1 week in the fridge... But I DID establish that eggs maintain their quality better long term if refrigerated. I always appreciate the chance to review my beliefs and to dispel (or confirm) old wives tales!

I'm NOT worried about salmonella... or government agency rules... or our appalling factory conditions (that's why I got MY OWN chickens)... based on QUALITY alone AND according to my personal experience and confirmed now by studies... I refrigerate my eggs. Don't believe me... run your own side by side test...

Regarding washing... I keep my nest boxes clean. Poo leaves stains on the eggs even if washed. Even mud does really. Any soiled eggs do get cleaned up and fed back to my animals. So I take back my comment that I never wash my eggs. Instead I never wash the ones my family or friends are eating. Yes our law in California says they MUST be "washed" (like running water will do anything ) if we sell them.

It's true I also ALMOST always break my eggs into another bowl first. My Grandma always made us take the chalazae out thinking it was an umbilical cord or she wouldn't eat the recipe. Also just to avoid or detect any blood or meat spots and in case I crack shells everywhere.

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Gross! It reminds me of when I was a kid. We had geese and ducks that we didn't really do anything with the eggs......so if they weren't sat on after a while they got rotten. Sometimes my brother would think it was great fun to start an egg war and throw the rotten eggs at me while I went out to feed. Some of those were really gross! Gotta love ornery little brothers.

Haha! That is funny..man kids can be 'rotten'! I honestly think I would die if I got that egg broken on me! I've rotten eggs, partially developed eggs...nothing like this one!