How To Care For Homegrown Eggs. Right now you can get my How To Raise Chickens book for FREE when you join my HomeGrown Homesteaders Community for only 250 today. Place the clean eggs in another basket or flat.
Right now you can get my How To Raise Chickens book for FREE when you join my HomeGrown Homesteaders Community for only 250 today. If its hot out or they were just laid and the eggs are warm use warm water. This is to prevent cracking.
Try to use a dry cleaning pad wherever possible because when you run water over an egg you are removing its bloom.
Let them sit and wipe dry with a dry paper towel one at a time. Pull your egg out of the water and use a scouring pad or an egg brush to scrub the eggshell clean. You have to check your coop at least twice a day for eggs. The bloom is the gelatinous outer layer that dries after a hen lays an egg sealing pores on the shell to help block bacterial infection.