Sold a fertizlied egg...

[rubyrogue]

Once washed they should be refrigerated. The bloom is what keeps all the nastys out. I wash mine the night before I take them to market. All I do is run them under warm water and kinda rub them with my fingers. Then I dry them with a clean towel and put them back in the fridge. I have a few customers that like the unwashed eggs as they last longer. The eggs I keep for eating are washed right beofer use, some of my personal eggs dont even get washed. If i am cracking them into a pan and they are clean, I don't wash. Always wash in water about 20* warmer than the egg. Warm water causes the inside of the egg to expand pushing out anything on the shell. Cold water causes the inside to contract drawing in anything on the shell.

 

[Chick-N-Antics]

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I might be getting overly anxious then with my eggs, because I do wash them up if they have a little poo or not. I sell to people I work with and they are used to their eggs being "pretty" and "clean". I'm getting some extremely useful info here!

 

[jwchicklady]

once you wash them, they need to be refrigerated--don't leave them out for a day or so.

 

[sred98]

I agree, offer him a replacement, or two.

I had this happen to me a few weeks back. I was cracking the 3rd of 3 eggs I was making a cake with, and the 3rd one was the charm!

Fortunately, (or unfortunately!) since I was cracking over the bowl, and nothing came out, I quickly moved it, and found a full-term (dead) chick.

I think my boys got a little overzealous egg-gathering and accidentally grabbed a broody's egg. UGH! It icked me out, but I felt worse for the poor chick.

It happens.

It does prove your eggs are superfresh!

Shelly

 

[chickygrl]

I'm glad to learn about the washing of eggs. We do not have any roos (my girls don't want any after a bad experience with a white leghorn roo) so my customers are happy that there is no chance of fertilized eggs. I did inform them that there could be blood spots occasionally but this does not mean that it is fertilized. I suggest they always break their eggs into a separate bowl before adding them to make sure. My girls collect eggs and sometimes we let ours sit in the basket for a day or so but, our girls like to lay them on the ground and almost always there are several with poo so they soak them in room temp water for about ten mins. Should we not do this? They were washing them one time and broke three trying to get the dirties off.

 

[TrystInn]

Do you ever use the float test to check for freshness? If you put them in a large bowl or bucket, fill it with water and see what floats. Fresh eggs will stay on the bottom, anything that floats has developed an air sac (which can be spoilage or fertilized eggs) and should be tossed.

 

[bambi]

Why can you not eat a fertilized egg?

 

[gritsar]

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No reason you can't. I do every single day.
To the OP - perhaps you missed one or (better chance IMO) the customer mistook something naturally occuring like the chalazae and mistook it for embryo development?
I don't wash my eggs, but I do refrigerate. Thankfully all my egg customers are country folk who know what a farm fresh egg can look like.

 

[Chick-N-Antics]

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You are right, it does mean its fresh. I'm sure this will go down as 'the incident' at work, he's a nice person, just not used to knowing the ugly truth about some foods. As for the rest of it, I'm going to take some extra measures, maybe check boxes morning and night...maybe even keep the roos together (they are a pesky lot for the girls). Thanks!

 

[sred98]

LOL! I bet it will!

I've had to "re-educate" a few people, including a pretty rude friend who was giving me a hard time about eating pre-formed baby chickens. I told her it was more like eating the chickens' periods.

She never mentioned another word about it!

Shelly