Forgot to gather eggs

[mochicken]

I guess I should say egg because I only have one poult laying right now, I got home late from work last night and forgot to grab the egg out of the nesting box like I usually do in the evening when I get home. Is the egg still edible? When I picked it up this morning it was cool to the touch so the poult did not sit on it all night, she usually lays around 11-1 so the egg has been in there since that time yesterday. It was crazy hot yesterday though, heat index of 110 or so, does that make a difference to the egg?

I know there are probably a ton of posts on here about this but I could not find any that specifically identified them as safe to eat.

 

[puredelite]

Should be OK, I have left them out longer than that and suffered no ill effects from eating them...

 

[dbounds10]

If you are really worried about it you can do the float test. Put it in a pan of water if it floats not good, if it sinks you are fine.

 

[chi-rn]

It should be fine. I've done this before with no ill effects. You can always scramble it, shell & all, & feed it back to her. She'll love you for it! & she won't recognize it as the same thing she produces....

 

[Cowgirl71]

Should be just fine, especially if the nest is pretty clean!