Weird tasting eggs!

[Hiddenspringsfarm]

I feed my chickens plenty of hemp and flax seeds to boost the eggs omega 3 and my eggs taste perfectly fine so this is not op's problem.

I’ve fed them flax before too and never noticed a taste difference either. Thanks!

 

[Hiddenspringsfarm]

My chickens occasionally eat frogs, snakes and lizards, but we have never had weird tasting eggs. My guess would be they are getting into a specific plant or maybe there is a fungus or mold on a plant just at this time of year. My daughter has a horse that gets clover slobbers (not really harmful, just gross) for a few weeks some years due to a fungus that can grow on clover in the summer, so maybe it is something like that
Good luck and I hope you can discover the cause!

Oooh this is interesting and what I needed to hear about snakes and frogs. I’ve always seen snakes and frogs here and I was sure they were getting into them before, wouldn’t necessarily make sense that it was causing it now, just wracking my brain for some cause. Thanks!!

 

[Hiddenspringsfarm]

Hello, so we think we have figured out the problem with our eggs. I am writing this so that if anyone else has the same problem they could find more info as to a possible cause. I didn’t even think about treats. My husband suggested that it may be the black soldier fly larvae that I feed them as a treat. I had gotten a new bag recently but hadn’t thought of it as a cause because I have fed them before with no issues. We stopped feeding them the BSFL for a week and the eggs are delicious again, no hint of the weird taste anymore. My husband thinks it was a bad batch! It’s the flock party brand from Tractor Supply. If anyone else has this issue, think of treats too! We never even gave them a lot, a handful or two a day for 7 chickens and that apparently made a huge difference. Took about 5 days for it to get out of their system.

When we had them locked up for the week to see if it was something when they were free ranging I think every single chicken got some of the treats instead of the few who came when I called for treats while they were free ranging (they don’t always come then) so when they were free ranging the taste was strong on a few eggs, and I think those were the girls who came over and got the full few handfuls instead of it being spread out among all 7. When they were locked up the taste wasn’t quite as strong, but it started to spread to all of the eggs. Weird. Took me and my husband a couple weeks of talking about it to figure it out. But thank God!!! We have our eggs back! Unfortunately I am now out a $30 something dollar bag of BSFL, and I won’t be buying that brand again!

 

[Vikakurk]

Hello! I have 7 chickens, 4 barred rocks, 2 New Hampshires, and 1 RIR. They used to free range on 5 acres (and the neighbors!) but recently I’ve had to keep them in their coop and run for a problem I’ve never encountered before. Some of their eggs (mostly the yolks) taste BAD. At first it was fishy, metallic bitter almost, just off. Now not so fishy as just a bitter aftertaste, that lingers. You can’t tell until you bite into them. They are collected every day and are always clean. I keep a very clean coop. It seems to be slowly going away, but I am wracking my brain as to what they may have gotten into. For reference, they are about a year old, and all prior eggs before about a month ago have been amazing, what I am used to with free range chickens. (I used to have a flock of 30 several years ago).

Now, when it started there were a few eggs that were terrible, I mean, spit right out bad all of a sudden. We were on the end of their batch of food and I thought that maybe it had gone stale, so they got a new batch and still, the eggs were bad but nothing like those first few. They got locked in their run. Still the eggs were bad but getting better. I gave up a few times and just let them out because they are so used to having so much room. I wonder how long they need to be penned up for this problem to resolve?

What I’m wondering is if anyone else has had this problem and fixed it?

I am assuming they got into something somewhere in the fields or woods (we live in the PNW Washington). I am wondering if some of them ate a snake or a frog or??? Cat poop?? (lol!?) or is it some weed (it’s august and all the grass is dried up but the weeds) is it something gone to seed that is bad?…… can’t figure it out. When I let them out for an afternoon it seems that maybe the taste comes back? Or mayb it’s still disappearing.

Help!! We always used to love our eggs but now we hold our breath when we try each individual one.

Hey I have the same exact problem with my hens. They laid fine until I let them free range and now their eggs are disgusting. Horrible after taste . We can’t eat them. I’m not sure what they are eating out there . Also I’m washing pnw. Did you find your answer? We gave away more than half of our flock thinking it was the birds but I’m convinced it’s something they’re eating!

 

[Vikakurk]

Hello, so we think we have figured out the problem with our eggs. I am writing this so that if anyone else has the same problem they could find more info as to a possible cause. I didn’t even think about treats. My husband suggested that it may be the black soldier fly larvae that I feed them as a treat. I had gotten a new bag recently but hadn’t thought of it as a cause because I have fed them before with no issues. We stopped feeding them the BSFL for a week and the eggs are delicious again, no hint of the weird taste anymore. My husband thinks it was a bad batch! It’s the flock party brand from Tractor Supply. If anyone else has this issue, think of treats too! We never even gave them a lot, a handful or two a day for 7 chickens and that apparently made a huge difference. Took about 5 days for it to get out of their system.

When we had them locked up for the week to see if it was something when they were free ranging I think every single chicken got some of the treats instead of the few who came when I called for treats while they were free ranging (they don’t always come then) so when they were free ranging the taste was strong on a few eggs, and I think those were the girls who came over and got the full few handfuls instead of it being spread out among all 7. When they were locked up the taste wasn’t quite as strong, but it started to spread to all of the eggs. Weird. Took me and my husband a couple weeks of talking about it to figure it out. But thank God!!! We have our eggs back! Unfortunately I am now out a $30 something dollar bag of BSFL, and I won’t be buying that brand again!

Just seen this. I don’t give my hens any snacks . Still a persisting problem