To be grossed out by poo on supermarket bought chicken eggs?

[Hulahoop32]

My oh thinks I’m mad 🤣 Decided to do some baking with my 4yo today and couldn’t find a single egg without poo on it! I read you shouldn’t wash them so just used the cleanest one I could find but now I’m reading all about how dangerous chicken poo is (I’ve been on furlough a long time and my brain isn’t operating rationally anymore. )

What does everyone else do?

Never heard anything so silly as this
Ah, come on, I sort of get it... Understandable to have a quite visceral reaction to seeing shit in your kitchen!

Technically eggs are a chickens period so it’s a hot weird this would gross you out 😆

@Hulahoop32 I think you've had some harsh responses. I understand what you meant about your brain and being on furlough. I hope you had fun baking and that you have more fun eating what you baked

As a child I always thought someone in the processing factory had the job of dabbing on the poo and sticking a little feather on

Shameful Townie chicken confession #101

I was pre visiting a farm , planning to take a class there, and noticed that there were no cockerels in the chicken pen.

"Don't you need a cockerel for them to produce eggs?" I asked.

"Do you need to have sex to produce eggs" was the answer.......

Sorry - do eggs come from chickens' bottoms? I thought chickens had something similar to a vagina?

Genuine question from city-dweller btw.

Yes. One hole in the back of the bird does the lot. And just to make your life even more WTF? Most male birds don't have penises either.

With all the panic about Chlorinated chicken I am surprised no-one's mentioned that eggs in the USA are routinely washed - in fact it's mandatory, by the supplier - sometimes in Chlorine.

This is because they are laid into piles of chicken shit in filthy conditions because of the low welfare standards in the USA. Chicken cages do not have to be cleaned, hence the need to wash the eggs and the chickens.

EU eggs cannot be washed by LAW, which forces farmers to keep them on clean bedding. It is for the welfare of the chicken. Any shit on an EU egg is a sign of insufficient cleanliness in the chicken bedding.

You voted for Brexit, peeps. Welcome to the future.

As a child I always thought someone in the processing factory had the job of dabbing on the poo and sticking a little feather on

Errol Flynn in his autobiography claims that, as a child, he used to buy eggs from town, take them to his farm, paint poo on them, and sell them at the gate to passing townies as farm fresh free range eggs at a profit. But he was a consummate liar and braggart so this probably isn't true - but it's a good story.

if you think the outside of the eggs are gross wait till you find out what kind of lives the chickens that lay them have. people who wah wah about animal products, you have a choice: go vegan or get over it.

I only ever buy free range eggs from a well known supermarket

I'm always suspicious of this though. Not having a dig at the pp, but how do we know?
I buy mine from a local farm.

Do you eat meat op? How do you deal with blood on meat?
I am vegi so honestly don't know how meat eaters feel..

Errol Flynn in his autobiography claims that, as a child...

... or was it Lenny Bruce? Damn.

I like to see a feather on an egg.

Currently paying £8 for 30 eggs delivered to my door (not sure this will happen when lockdown is over and restaurants open)

Shit on eggs is ok...shitty (battery) eggs another matter

I would be grossed out but I'd just wipe the egg and make sure that none of the shell goes into the baking.

The title on Trending showed as ‘to be grossed out by poo on supermar...’

I thought I’d open the thread to find that some filthy fucker had shit on the floor in Sainsbury’s. But yes OP. I agree with your DH.

It actually pleases me a little to find a poop ridden egg, it's like the Chicken is having the last laugh.

'm always suspicious of this though. Not having a dig at the pp, but how do we know?
I buy mine from a local farm.

Unfortunately, local farms sometimes sell eggs purchased from other sources so you can't be sure that way either unless you actually wait while they collect the eggs for you.

They come from the cloaca, a shared orrifice.

Blimey OP - we have hens in the garden, you should see some of the eggs they lay 😂

Another fun chicken fact: did you know a cockerel can shag every hen in sight several times a day (including before breakfast) and STILL not fertilise the eggs effectively?

I know what kind of life my chickens have had that lay my eggs! A very happy and pampered one. Though sometimes do have a bit of poo on the eggs. You can wash eggs before you use them. They just go off quicker if they are washed and need to be kept in the fridge whereas none washed ones can stay outside the fridge.

you can wash immediately before use no problem - its when you wash and leave hanging around its an issue.

I just crack egg separately, bin th shell wash hands and carry on baking and

They are not allowed to be sold with poo on so you are right op. Soiled eggs should go for industrial use not direct to the consumer. This is because eggs are porous so bacteria from the poo can enter the egg. Eggs used industrially have to be well cooked or pasteurised to avoid this risk. So if you do get a poo-ey egg, just make sure its baked in a cake or hard boiled and you will be fine

And just putting this here for info.

I mean you shouldn't be that concerned about it. Can I ask - are you able to eat meat in general? Do you think you could slaughter an animal without it turning you vegetarian? I struggle with that issue myself.