Cleaning Farm Eggs

RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By MarieClaire (24) Profile Contact I leave the crud on the eggs then put them in egg cartons for the fridge. As I use the eggs I wash them off under running water, and dry them. That gets any bacteria off the shell and so when you crack open the egg its safe. I feel that the crud helps preserve the egg so I don't wash it off before I put the eggs in the cartons. Posted on 11/09/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By redhatterb (233) Profile Contact I grew up on a farm in the forties and fifties, and the only eggs that we ever washed were the ones that were really dirty. We just used plain water. It was usually my mother or myself that did the job. My brother, 2 years younger than me thought it was beneath him, and my younger sisters were too little. Posted on 04/11/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Carson E (Guest Post) Cleaning eggs can be very annoying. I use cold water and a little vinegar. It works well. Good luck Posted on 02/12/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By (Guest Post) Eggs with blood on them are a hen's first egg she's laid. We call them "virgin eggs." Posted on 11/10/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Mary (Guest Post) We put plastic easter eggs in our nesting boxes to get the chickens to lay in the nest. Hope it helps you. Posted on 03/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Country Angel (Guest Post) I raise my chickens and use a cool water, vinegar solution only. However, I do have one inquiry. Some of my eggs have blood on the outside of them. Am I feeding my chickens something incorrectly? They get cherry grit, oyster shell and layers pellets, plenty of water. Is there something wrong with them. Posted on 02/05/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Kimbob (Guest Post) I can't get my chickens to use the nesting boxes. So, they are laying on the floor. Their eggs get messy this way. Any suggestions? Posted on 01/15/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By KnowWhatIWant (1) Contact I bought farm eggs ("greens" and 'browns") and when I called my father to ask about the "green," I told him that the lady had not washed them and said only to wash right before eating. He said NO! DO NOT WASH EGGS! Most of my life he owned a refrigeration and air-conditioning business, and had mostly commercial accounts; one was a large egg distributor. The eggs you buy in the store have not been washed. They have run over rollers that have very, very, fine sandpaper on them to remove any poopy, or what not. He told me to take the eggs and use the finest sandpaper I could buy and sand only the poopy parts, not the whole egg if I don't have to. It is just as the lady had told me and the one here in the post said; if you wash them you remove a coating, allowing the eggs to become porous and bacteria enters the edible part of the egg. While eggs laid in straw beds are usually pretty clean, free range eggs etc., may not be, and the poopy is kind of stinky. Hope that this is helpful to someone. Posted on 11/10/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By dianna holland (Guest Post) I bought some fresh eggs today and they smell awful when I opened the carton, are they bad this is the first time they smelled like that Posted on 05/31/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Charlotte Nelson (Guest Post) I put a tablespoon of clorox in the cold water when I wash the eggs to clean them. Does this help or am I hurting my family ---- can the clorox cause a problem or does it prevent problems? Posted on 04/05/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Rose. (Guest Post) Remember - cool or cold water. Don't be like the city kid working in the grocery store. He was told to clean cases of eggs. Yup. You guessed it. He used warm to hot water. People were bringing back their eggs for weeks. Sorry but, it's a true story. Posted on 02/23/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Lois Ann from New York (Guest Post) WATER. That is all you should put on farm fresh eggs. If ours are especially 'caked up', I put them in a dish of water and let them soak an hour or so. Then, i just rinse them off or scrub them more thorougly with a wash cloth. Eggshells are porous, I would not add soaps, cleaners, or anything else...just water. Posted on 02/20/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Margie Minard (Guest Post) As I understand it, NEVER wash eggs before you are ready to use them. There is a natural protective covering on them that shouldn't be removed. Eggs with manure on them can be wiped with a damp cloth, if it's necessary. If you clean eggs with soap, etc, it allows bacteria to enter through the pourous shells and that's where e coli is a danger. We've had chickens for nearly 20 years and only clean eggs when we are ready to use them, and only if it is necessary. I can't think of a single time we have had a problem with that. Posted on 02/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By grannyz (13) Contact My parents raised chickens for several years and sold the eggs. So did my husband and I for a few years. There very very seldom was egg ever an egg that was dirty. As long as the chickens are provided with laying boxes padded with straw they will use those boxes and you should never have dirty eggs. If they are being allowed to deposit their eggs on the ground on a regular basis, that's another story. That was our experience when raising chickens. Over the years it was a rarity to ever find a dirty egg. For the rare egg that might have a little dirt spot it could easily be washed off with vinegar and used. Posted on 02/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By (Guest Post) I have heard that unless the eggs are dirty(ie chicken manure) the eggs will keep longer and be less prone to get things like salmonella if you do not remove the coating the chicken leaves on the egg. So it depends on their condition and how you are going to use them, if you even need to clean them at all. Warmest Wishes, Denise McCall CHRISTIAN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 800-585-5873 opt. 3 for FR*EE info pac, leave ID#3752. No sign-up fee. Cheap mthly purchase for commissions. www.get-it.net/scriptures/dmccal5348/ Posted on 02/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Cleaning Farm Eggs By Kathy in Illinois (Guest Post) My Mom raised chickens on our farm. She would wipe the fresh eggs with a cloth soaked in vinegar. Everyone loved her fresh eggs. Posted on 02/19/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

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