Sulfur Eggs?

[cluckkatie]

My eggs smell like sulfur and urine, especially when I cook them... I don't eat these ones because I fear that it will taste like sulfur or that these eggs are contaminated. How do I get rid of this sulfur smell? Are there certain foods I should be giving them to improve the smell? Right now they are eating layer feed along with the occasional fruit and vegetable treat.

 

[Cyprus]

What are the fruits and veggies? How often are you collecting eggs?

 

[Molpet]

how are you cooking them? hard boiled eggs that are over cooked will have a sulfur smell. This is due to a reaction between traces of iron in the yolk and sulfur in the white. https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/why-overcooked-eggs-smell-so-bad

 

[GreenMountainEric]

What are you feeding for layer feed? There are certain diets that can cause this issue in certain breeds.

Most notably, diets with high amounts of flaxseed or canola in them....

 

[Perris]

how old are the eggs you are talking about? bad eggs famously smell sulphurous.
that apart, isn't it sulfur that makes all yolks yellow (rather than being in the white, Molpet)?

 

[Molpet]

how old are the eggs you are talking about? bad eggs famously smell sulphurous.
that apart, isn't it sulfur that makes all yolks yellow (rather than being in the white, Molpet)?

naw the feed gives it the color... in places that don't feed any corn and mainly wheat the yolks are white.
they say: ".... egg's sulfur content (about 50 mg in the white and about 25 mg in the yolk)...." https://cen.acs.org/articles/84/i34/Chicken-Eggs.html

 

[Perris]

thanks @Molpet - very interesting and informative article