Rotten Eggs Store Bought vs Fresh Eggs

When they crack and they are like not right. Like the yolk is mixed into the white and stuff. Idk. It just isn’t smelly or exploding but it’s definitely not right

Sometimes I think that just happens, even with fresh eggs. Maybe it's something odd about the way the hen's body makes the egg that day? If you get a particular kind of weird egg regularly, you might just have one hen that makes eggs like that.

Other times, that can happen because the egg that has been shaken around. People who order eggs for hatching will complain when the eggs arrived with the yolks broken and mixed with the whites even though the shell isn't broken: in that case, the eggs are fresh, but the Post Office jostled them too much. If the eggs get carried around for a while in someone's pocket, or shaken by an excited child, that might cause a similar thing (I've carried eggs in my pockets without having the inside get scrambled, but I wasn't running or jumping when I did it.)

Yolks do become weaker over time, and more prone to breaking when you crack the egg open or even when you just wiggle it a bit. This happens faster when the eggs are stored in warmer temperatures. For example, it happens in eggs that spent one or two weeks in an incubator without developing chicks (infertile eggs.) I think it can happen to eggs stored at other temperatures too, but it usually takes much longer.

I don't know for sure what is happening with your eggs, but maybe my ideas will help you or someone else to figure it out.
 
Bad egg

And when I candles it it seemed fine
 

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This is super interesting. I've had one or two broken yolks (not all yellow though, like yours, just a little mixed), some water-like whites, and one or two cracked that went bad on my counter. This is in about 3 years of chickening and I tend to keep mine on the counter unwashed.

How often do you get an egg like this, and do you know how old it is? I'm wondering if you have a hen with a specific problem vs. normally spoiled or old eggs...
 
This is super interesting. I've had one or two broken yolks (not all yellow though, like yours, just a little mixed), some water-like whites, and one or two cracked that went bad on my counter. This is in about 3 years of chickening and I tend to keep mine on the counter unwashed.

How often do you get an egg like this, and do you know how old it is? I'm wondering if you have a hen with a specific problem vs. normally spoiled or old eggs...
So these I have kept in the fridge because we were experiencing freezing temperatures and eggs were freezing.

I was candling for cracks and would throw those out. And if they seemed fine I put them in the fridge.

So these were all “questionable” lol

But regularly it happened RARELY and we collect eggs throughout the day.

After previous comments the kids did admit to shaking them or dancing their way to the baskets.
 
That is definitely odd.

There is a chance that freezing could cause that (partially freeze, then thaw again without causing a crack in the shell.)

But if you were collecting eggs several times each day, I would not expect the eggs to actually freeze.

I would not expect kids shaking the egg to cause that. It looks like the yolk is a different color in places, not just broken.

So I'm stumped on what is actually going on here.
 

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