Chicken Eggs have metallic taste

[Garden-Willy]

Any helpful tips to try and fix my problem ?

for 6 months my 3 laying hen have been laying eggs with metallic taste.

Ive contacted vets , petshops and NSW Department of Primary Industries and no one heard of this problem

Food:

• When we got them they were eating just barastoc poultry "golden yolk"
• In July change to "Red Hen 17" then change back in Aug because we thought the food was the problem.
• Use to give Chubby Dried Mealworms and stop because we thought might be the problem .
• We have stop giving food scrap in July ( potatoes skins, steam veggies , plain rice , never cooked food)
• Veggie patch compost
• Watson & Williams Fine Shell Grit
• Change water weekly

Environment :

• bedding : I have tried sugar cane mulch (Feb. to April) , hemp mulch (april-jun) ,wood chips (june to Aug.)
• In march we had a tree cut down and mulch around the yard , the chicken often scratch thought the garden ( thought maybe this was the reason ???)

• Feb 2021 when we first got the 2 easter eggs chicken we started to have chicken mite. treaded with food grade Diatomaceous Earth + "Pestene Lice & Mite Powder". also need to treat them in may , June and finally stop getting mite in July/Aug.
• cleaning coup weekly because we had the mite

• I don't spray my lawn, veggie garden , chickens are lock away for 2 week while using organic fertilizer

Things I have tied :

• vet suggested to try worming them , 10th September 2021 - with Vetsense Kilverm Poultry Wormer
• Facebook internet suggestion : 15th September 2021 "Vetsense Avi-VITAL" - multi vitamin, mineral, amino acid and prebiotic supplement

Any helpful suggestion would greatly be apparated , I am happy to pay to post my egg to get tested.

 

[Cobbadiggabuddyblooo]

Because, believe it or not, you are tasting iron (from the yolk) and sulfur (from the white) which have combined to form ferrous sulfide. The older the egg, the more alkaline the white and the more likely this is to happen, but only if you cook them long enough at a high enough temperature.

 

[desman]

Any helpful tips to try and fix my problem ?

for 6 months my 3 laying hen have been laying eggs with metallic taste.

Ive contacted vets , petshops and NSW Department of Primary Industries and no one heard of this problem

Food:

• When we got them they were eating just barastoc poultry "golden yolk"
• In July change to "Red Hen 17" then change back in Aug because we thought the food was the problem.
• Use to give Chubby Dried Mealworms and stop because we thought might be the problem .
• We have stop giving food scrap in July ( potatoes skins, steam veggies , plain rice , never cooked food)
• Veggie patch compost
• Watson & Williams Fine Shell Grit
• Change water weekly

Environment :

• bedding : I have tried sugar cane mulch (Feb. to April) , hemp mulch (april-jun) ,wood chips (june to Aug.)
• In march we had a tree cut down and mulch around the yard , the chicken often scratch thought the garden ( thought maybe this was the reason ???)

• Feb 2021 when we first got the 2 easter eggs chicken we started to have chicken mite. treaded with food grade Diatomaceous Earth + "Pestene Lice & Mite Powder". also need to treat them in may , June and finally stop getting mite in July/Aug.
• cleaning coup weekly because we had the mite

• I don't spray my lawn, veggie garden , chickens are lock away for 2 week while using organic fertilizer

Things I have tied :

• vet suggested to try worming them , 10th September 2021 - with Vetsense Kilverm Poultry Wormer
• Facebook internet suggestion : 15th September 2021 "Vetsense Avi-VITAL" - multi vitamin, mineral, amino acid and prebiotic supplement

Any helpful suggestion would greatly be apparated , I am happy to pay to post my egg to get tested.

Are your eggs always boiled or also fried? Are you on bore Water by any chance?

 

[Garden-Willy]

Are your eggs always boiled or also fried? Are you on bore Water by any chance?

fried and boiled we have gone back to shop eggs , so it not our taste buds .

I don't think it the water as we have started filling water from filter /bottle water

 

[Cobbadiggabuddyblooo]

How old are the chooks Willy???

 

[Garden-Willy]

Because, believe it or not, you are tasting iron (from the yolk) and sulfur (from the white) which have combined to form ferrous sulfide. The older the egg, the more alkaline the white and the more likely this is to happen, but only if you cook them long enough at a high enough temperature.

So I guess I need to find out what giving them the Iron or sulfur ??

I thought maybe they were just sick , we get alot of wild birds drinking from their water/feeder - thought maybe they have a bug/virus/Bactria

 

[Garden-Willy]

How old are the chooks Willy???

2 year at the most

 

[Cobbadiggabuddyblooo]

Do you wash the eggs and put them in the fridge??
They have their own protective coating and are quite safe to be left at room temp for a number of days.

 

[Garden-Willy]

Do you wash the eggs and put them in the fridge??
They have their own protective coating and are quite safe to be left at room temp for a number of days.

there mostly clean , we have tested them 2 hours > 2day after they have lay them. most the time we have been collecting them for a week, test Friday eggs , if they are yuck we chuck the whole week out.

 

[Grandmother Goose]

Some tips about eggs...
1. Collect the eggs twice daily, once in the late morning, and check again for any late lays in the late afternoon. This guarantees they'll be as fresh and clean as they can get. If life gets in the way, they'll be fine for a few days, so don't panic if you can't, but check them more carefully if you've missed a few days as the longer they're sitting around, the more likely they'll get too soiled, scratched or slightly cracked.
2. Don't wash the eggs. If there's a little bit of muck on them, gently remove it with a dry cloth. Discard any that are too soiled to clean this way. Getting the eggs wet, or scratching the surface of the shell, will damage the protective coating.
3. Store the eggs in an egg carton. Eggs are very porous and can absorb flavours from other things around them. Commercial egg cartons help prevent some of this.
4. If you store the eggs in the fridge, once you take them out of the fridge you need to use them within a day. The reason for this is because in taking them out of the fridge, the cold egg will react with the warmer air and form condensation on the shell until it reaches room temperature, which can damage the protective coating.
5. Freshly collected undamaged unwashed clean eggs stored in an egg carton will last for many weeks at room temperature, they'll last for several months if refrigerated. An ideal egg in ideal refrigerated conditions can last for up to 6 months, but I'd definitely check point 10 before eating one that's been stored for that long as ideal is impossible to achieve in the average home fridge.
6. Candle your eggs before storing them, because even the tiniest crack in the shell can let in bacteria which can spoil the egg.
7. The fresher the egg, the stronger it will taste. If you're finding the taste of your fresh eggs too strong, don't eat them so soon.
8. The eggs you buy at the supermarket can be up to a couple of months old. They spend a lot of time sitting in storerooms and on the back of trucks before getting put on the supermarket shelf.
9. Store eggs with the pointiest end down, just because that forces the little air bubble in the egg to stay at one end of the egg, which makes point 10 easier to do.
10. To test the age of an egg, place it in cold water. If it sinks and sits on it's side, it's fresh. If it sinks and rests on it's end, it should still okay to use, but will need to be used very soon. If it floats, it's too old and probably turned. Once wet, use the egg within one day for the same reason as point 4.
11. Always test every egg, because now and then you'll get a bad one for no particular reason when all the rest are perfectly fine.
12. Eggs are always best cooked slowly on a lower heat. Cooking them too fast, too hot, will change their taste and texture, the metallic taste you describe is not uncommon with this mistake.
13. Make sure you're feeding your chooks a feed suitable for egg layers, not meat chickens. Meat chicken food is very high in proteins and designed for fast growth and muscle mass. Egg layer feed is designed for producing good eggs with solid shells. Mix them up and you'll get poorer quality results from your chickens.

 

[Road Rat Nat]

What an amazing comment. Thank you for this information!

 

[Vera]

Hello, i remember growing up with lots of chickens geese etc in the 1960s on small farm and remembered a main treatment my father used was sulphur powder i just googled and there are many comments on mixes for dust baths for the chickens in their runs they are then cleaning themselves,
sulphur also sprinkled around their pens and yards is extremely good for pest as well as diatomaceous earth apparently some make mixes with sand of these with other natural powders such as rotenone for dust baths, lime sprinkled in nooks and crannies,