While this still damages some of the bloom coating, it keeps the egg dry, helping to prevent the “vacuum” effect.Ģ.
Use a fine grit sandpaper to gently sand off any soiled areas of the egg. Let’s go with (c), shall we? Egg Wash options:ġ. So your options are: (a) throw them at cars (b) practice your juggling technique (c) carefully clean them. (I really wish I had known this tip BEFORE we built our roost set-up… darn it.) Prairie Baby loves collecting eggsīut, even with the cleanest boxes, you will still end up with a dirty egg from time to time. Chickens like to roost in the highest part of the coop that they can. Build roosting areas higher than your nesting area to discourage them from roosting in and soiling their boxes. Place your roosting areas HIGHER than your boxes. Personally, I’ve found that keeping a constant supply of fresh shavings in each box goes a looong way in keeping my eggs clean ( though, I’ll freely admit that this does not happen every day at my homestead!).Ģ. So, what do we do with those less-than-shiny eggs? First off, the easiest solution is to prevent dirty eggs in the first place.ġ. (Of course, not all bacteria is bad, but you never know what may be lurking on the outside, so better safe than sorry.) And washing eggs in cool water actually creates a vacuum, pulling unwanted bacteria inside even faster.
Right?īelieve it or not, there is more to washing an egg than you might think.Įgg shells are porous, but God designed them to have a micro membrane coating on them called “bloom” to keep potential baby chicks and their environment safe and clean.īacteria has a hard time getting inside a dry egg. Washing dirty eggs removes the bloom and invites bacteria to be drawn inside the egg. And sometimes when you give people a carton of chicken eggs to take home that have bits of shavings and feathers stuck to them, it kinda grosses them out.īut no big deal, just give the eggs a good scrubbing and send them out the door. I’ll eat unwashed veggies from my garden (we’re 100% organic, of course), raw milk straight from Oakley the cow, and raw eggs from our chickens.īuuut, some people aren’t quite so, shall we say, accepting. I’m pretty laid-back when it comes to my home-grown foods.
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