Specks on eggs

[myhensanme]

Hi, this is my 1st post! I have mostly Cochin and a few Polish girls. One (maybe 2) eggs each day has brownish specks or spots that can be scraped off when I wash them. Have any of you seen this and can you tell me what it might be?

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I love eggs with specks on them!! Those are always so pretty to me. Now, you may be talking about a spec of the same color as the egg (I'm talking eggs with different colored specks - like freckles) that is like a bump. I think those are calcium deposits or something like that - I may be wrong.

AND WELCOME TO BYC!

 

[Wynette]

If they look like this, they are just pigment and nothing to worry about:

 

[granmahen]

I'm amazed at how sometimes the eggs come out clean as a whistle and so dirty other times. I don't really want to know why. I just wipe them with a dry paper towel and don't wash them until I'm ready to use them. It seems to be consensus on byc that washing eggs right away rinses away their protective coating.

 

[myhensanme]

Thanks everyone for your help ---I won't worry about the specks. And I wouldn't be washing most of them except I have a customer that insists on washed eggs. Thanks again.