Are these eggs old? Do they really need to be in the fridge??

If you are sure they are less than 5 days old with no cracks, they should be just fine.

I don't know for sure if she was sitting on them.

Imp

 

Probably fine. I always break each egg into a separate little bowl first, just in case there's a bad one. I sniff them while in the little bowl and look them over. If it smells funny, I throw it out.

I have a RIR who goes way back under the coop to lay- and when I blocked it off, she started laying from the roost- 5 feet above the floor! I removed the block, and now I crawl under again.........

 

The temps you mention practically qualify as refrigeration anyway, they should be fine.

 

When in doubt, try to 'float' the eggs.

Fill the sink with warm water, place the eggs on the bottom.

If they lay flat, they're fine. If they tilt up, they're a bit old and wonderful for hardboiled eggs.

If they float, give them to the pigs ....

 

We never refrigerate eggs, except in the 90+ of summer. The eggs can be 4 weeks old and still perfect.

Matt

 

We usually have about a two week old supply of eggs at any given time and they are never refrigerated and have yet to find a bad one. We will do the float test on some of the older ones to make sure before we use them though. Some we have had over 3 weeks and have still been fine.

 

Quote:I wonder why it's called "floating" the eggs. Unless they're bad, you're not floating them, you're sinking them!

I always wonder why it's not called "the sinking test".

It works great, though. Occasionally I have a fresh egg tip up a bit, (I wash all my eggs in a sink full of soapy water, so they all get "the sinking test") but then I look closer, and so far, it always turns out they have small cracks in the shells.