What are these stripes?
Author: Piet Simons
Publish date: Friday. February 9th, 2018
Photo: Jan van Esch
Ask yourself the following questions: What do I see? What does it mean? What should I do?
This is Practical guide to improving egg quality
- LOOK: On this egg you see stripes.
- THINK: These are not rollaway stripes (where the pigment layer is damaged), but dust stripes by the jute egg belt behind the laying nest.
- ACT: Make sure the egg belt is clean and, if possible, eggs have some more time to dry out.
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