About eggs... contradicting info

[dbcooper02]

I'd have to do some research in my old books to verify this. I believe that in times past when eggs were shipped by rail in unrefrigerated rail cars infertile eggs were preferred. Imagine fertile eggs spending a few 100 degree days in transit. Infertile eggs would not provide any possibility of development.

 

[elmo]

To each his or her own, I guess, but to me the whole point of having hens in my back yard is so that I don't eat eggs that are weeks or months old like from the grocery store. I guess if you have a lot of eggs from a lot of chickens, storing them for a long time is better than wasting the eggs, though.

 

[Want Less]

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Thank you for the article!!!

 

[Want Less]

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I'm not asking with the intentions of leaving eggs around for a while, I was only curious as to whether or not it was true

 

[gritsar]

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I'm not asking with the intentions of leaving eggs around for a while, I was only curious as to whether or not it was true

Plus, as the article addressed some folks want to know how best to store eggs long term if they have hens that quit or slow down on their laying in the wintertime. Doesn't make much sense to go out and buy eggs if you have egg machines out in your backyard that are simply on their winter break.