To wash or not to wash eggs?

[jackhorn01]

lol thats how it started out. we have gone on to many tangents then back to poopy on the eggs lol, i absolutely agree with you on the occasional natural disaster preparations, what i said was just my personal feelings on the big doomsday deal lol. i can survive for more than 2 months with whats in my house, not just eggs, i'm all about canning stuff and home made ingredients. so back to eggs, lol, my comments before we went to doomsday were based on the average persons egg consumption, and refrigerating washing how long they are good for yadda yadda yadda, most people will eat an egg before they have to worry about how old it is. just pick a method of egg cleaning and putting up etc.. and do that one method properly. kind of like medicine, you can find many different medicines to treat 1 particular illness, all with have different pros and cons, just just have to pick one and use that one properly and fight the side effects of that ONE properly. i use that illustration for eggs, you can't take a piece here and a piece here of every single post you see on one persons methods and try to make sense about it, pick the one method that best suits your family on how much ya'll eat and how far back you actually "need" to stockpile and do that one methdo to the best of your ability and hope for the best. sure there are certain things that are actually right and wrong like using cold water to wash them, but alot of it is also personal preference. there is no such method that has 0 drawbacks. find one that suits you and git r done

 

[Annasg]

My thought! Everyone has a way that works for them. I have mine, you have yours but we all have a way.

 

[houseofknauss]

lol thats how it started out. we have gone on to many tangents then back to poopy on the eggs lol, i absolutely agree with you on the occasional natural disaster preparations, what i said was just my personal feelings on the big doomsday deal lol. i can survive for more than 2 months with whats in my house, not just eggs, i'm all about canning stuff and home made ingredients. so back to eggs, lol, my comments before we went to doomsday were based on the average persons egg consumption, and refrigerating washing how long they are good for yadda yadda yadda, most people will eat an egg before they have to worry about how old it is. just pick a method of egg cleaning and putting up etc.. and do that one method properly. kind of like medicine, you can find many different medicines to treat 1 particular illness, all with have different pros and cons, just just have to pick one and use that one properly and fight the side effects of that ONE properly. i use that illustration for eggs, you can't take a piece here and a piece here of every single post you see on one persons methods and try to make sense about it, pick the one method that best suits your family on how much ya'll eat and how far back you actually "need" to stockpile and do that one methdo to the best of your ability and hope for the best. sure there are certain things that are actually right and wrong like using cold water to wash them, but alot of it is also personal preference. there is no such method that has 0 drawbacks. find one that suits you and git r done

we are a long ways away from each other but in agreement on many things jackhorn!!!

 

[jackhorn01]

Indeed we are, I was up your way for awhile tho, I was stationed at Ft. Drum for 8 years.

 

[RedneckGurl]

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You should check out this thread -- https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...hickens-when-we-cant-buy-chicken-feed-anymore

All about what to do should the SHTF and we have to resort to alternative means to feed ourselves and our chickens.

 

[theuglyduckling]

can you leave eggs out that have been refrigerated? like say you took an egg out and for some reason forgot to use it and it stayed out on the counter for a couple days or hours will it still be okay to eat?

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

can you leave eggs out that have been refrigerated? like say you took an egg out and for some reason forgot to use it and it stayed out on the counter for a couple days or hours will it still be okay to eat?

Plenty of recipes call for room temperature eggs, so leaving them out for a few hours shouldn't be a problem. If you're worried, you can do a float test ... Put the egg in a bowl of water and if it floats it isn't good anymore. Then follow your regular egg handling procedures ... break it into a bowl and check it, cook it thoroughly, wash hands after handling, etc.

 

[jaseg]

This has been an on going dispute for years. Is there anyone who can definitavly or scientificly prove with sources the true answer to this age old question. Something solid.

 

[beverly evans]

Hey- If they don't have poop on them the chickens own "bloom" keeps the inner contents pure. Otherwise when you wash off the poop and the "bloom" the water must be at least 40 degrees hotter than room temp. This was scientific but don't ask me where I read It. I lived in Mexico for 7 years and never refrigerated an egg. They don't down there and to no ill effect. You have your eggs out on the counter in a basket and use them every day so they never get old. lol Beverly Evans
While I'm here I want to ask a question. My cks. eat all the bits of corn from their fancy organic feed and leave all this powder stuff. The powder ends up being 3/4's of the feed!! What to do with it? It mostly ends up on the coop floor. I can't afford that kind of waste--not cost effective, what? So I make " "chicken pancakes". At first I just put 1 egg and some water aand fried up some. They weren't having any! They say chickens have no, or very little, sense of taste. Don't believe it. Next time I added milk instead of water, salt, baking powder, and enough flour to make them act and look like real pancakes. They gobble them up! Do I want to go to so much trouble every little while? No way, but what do other people do? Throw it away? Or are other people's chickens less picky than mine and eat all that powder? Feedback please.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Hey- If they don't have poop on them the chickens own "bloom" keeps the inner contents pure. Otherwise when you wash off the poop and the "bloom" the water must be at least 40 degrees hotter than room temp. This was scientific but don't ask me where I read It. I lived in Mexico for 7 years and never refrigerated an egg. They don't down there and to no ill effect. You have your eggs out on the counter in a basket and use them every day so they never get old. lol Beverly Evans
While I'm here I want to ask a question. My cks. eat all the bits of corn from their fancy organic feed and leave all this powder stuff. The powder ends up being 3/4's of the feed!!  What to do with it?  It mostly ends up on the coop floor. I can't afford that kind of waste--not cost effective, what?  So I make "  "chicken pancakes". At first I just put 1 egg and some water aand fried up some. They weren't having any! They say chickens have no, or very little, sense of taste. Don't believe it. Next time I added milk instead of water, salt, baking powder, and enough flour to make them act and look like real pancakes. They gobble them up!  Do I want to go to so much trouble every little while?  No way, but what do other people do? Throw it away? Or are other people's chickens less picky than mine and eat all that powder?  Feedback please. 

That powder is likely where all the "nutrition" is in that feed mix. It is tough to mix whole/cracked grains with protein powders and supplements cuz the added nutrients don't get eaten. That's why feeds are so often pellets -- everything is mixed up really well and pressed into bite-sized pieces so the birds can't pick and choose. Your solution is clever, though I'd be worried about the added salt and fat.

Maybe just moistening the feed could help? But there could be issues with that, too.

I'd check a thread specific to feed mixes.