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Eating unwashed backyard chicken eggs can expose you to E. coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter from manure. Even clean-looking eggs should be washed, refrigerated, and stored in a clean carton to avoid serious illness like reactive arthritis.
Eating unwashed backyard chicken eggs can expose you to E. coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter from manure. Even clean-looking eggs should be washed, refrigerated, and stored in a clean carton to avoid serious illness like reactive arthritis.
There's a dangerous trend going on right now with chicken tenders, right? People raising chickens, they're eating this egg without washing it. The problem is this chicken manure can get— what would you call those, Rebecca? Foodborne illness. The problem is eating, getting accidentally some of this manure in your food is E. coli, could give you salmonella, Campylobacter, which could leave you with reactive arthritis. I think the confusion comes in that you don't have to wash eggs, and you wouldn't have to wash an egg that's this clean, it can stay on the counter for 8 weeks and stay fresh, and you could use it as is. This would store too, but please wash the manure off before you use it.
I would even go so far as to say wash it now, put it in an egg carton, and put it in your fridge because you're gonna use it. I would rather have a washed egg in my fridge than a poopy one sitting around my house.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
