Unless your sure of the cleanliness of its environs, I'd be cautious. That siad, cooking to 165 will kill many germs, but not all. Some of our most feared germs can survive that temp. I myself would not eat cracked eggs from the hen house, I know what those sweet girls do in there, and their digestive bacteria are not our friend.
I would not either, but if you home freeze and they crack, or freeze in the coop and don't crack, I would eat it. Like I said, they were a little watery, but apart from that they were fine. It's a good way to store eggs for baking etc. I suspect our freezer was too cold for the eggs, that's why they cracked so badSo I would recommend freezing them in a container.
I'd not put unwashed eggs in freezer, more likely for bacteria to get inside while thawing.I'm with Sumi, I would feel no qualms about eggs that cracked in my own freezer (and I'm thinking many will - egg whites have lots of water to expand) or I found frozen but not cracked in my hen house.
I don't put unwashed eggs in fridge either, just to keep it clean in there.
They are either on the counter... or if filthy, they get washed and go into fridge and eaten soonest.
@sumi Great experiment with cooking the frozen in shell eggs!
@Marty1876 Great chemistry lesson!
Using supplemental lighting so am usually not short on eggs in winter and have more customers with summer folk(tourist belt here) during the peak laying season.
I have frozen some, and may do more in the future, I sure did glean some great tips from this thread!