Chicken Eggs have metallic taste - Self Sufficient Culture (2024)

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.

Garden-Willy said:

Any helpful tips to try and fix my problem ?

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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.

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

desman said:

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

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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 said:

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.

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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

Cobbadiggabuddyblooo said:

How old are the chooks Willy???

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2 year at the most

Cobbadiggabuddyblooo said:

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.

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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.