Automatic egg cleaner?

[gra_farmer]

We have ducks, and although they are cute and produce lovely eggs, they seem to roll the eggs around (occasionally standing on them and breaking them), and then poo on them....only to roll them around some more

So cleaning them although not difficult, is another step / barrier to navigate with everything else we have to do.

So can anyone recommend an automatic egg cleaner? They exist in the USA, but not found them here?

Many thanks

 

[Glow_worm]

There isn't much out there for very small scale use. The farm I am involved with have roll away laying boxes for the hens, so most are clean, but the small number of dirties go in a Monarch rotary egg washer (actually it oscillates) very good but full commercial quality so very expensive. Even smaller similar types of 100 egg capacity are around the £400 mark. I don't know of anything smaller.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I believe that all eggs for commercial sale in the US must be washed. This removes the protective layer on the shell, making them porous and meaning that they must be kept refrigerated. This requirement probably explains why egg-cleaning machines are easier to find over there.