Got my first egg, unsure when...?

[cmom]

I live in Florida and we have hot weather. I collect my eggs once a day in the evening before the birds go to roost. We have our routine. Once in awhile I will find an egg on the floor of a coop and I eat it. You can break it open in a dish first. When the birds lay their eggs they put a coating on it (bloom) to guard against bacteria getting into the egg. This is just what I do. I know many people wouldn't but to me they are perfectly good eggs. I haven't had a bad one yet. (especially the first egg) Good luck and have fun...

 

[sonjadowns]

My husband and I went out of town for an extended weekend during the time my girls were just starting to lay. Found six eggs when we returned. Scrambled them up for the girls as well as the dogs. All enjoyed it. Most eggs were peewee to small size except for one which was a large and a double yolk at that. We are experiencing 100 degrees as well. I check every few hours and would recommend that.

 

[cmom]

My husband and I went out of town for an extended weekend during the time my girls were just starting to lay. Found six eggs when we returned. Scrambled them up for the girls as well as the dogs. All enjoyed it. Most eggs were peewee to small size except for one which was a large and a double yolk at that. We are experiencing 100 degrees as well. I check every few hours and would recommend that.

 

[cmom]

My husband and I went out of town for an extended weekend during the time my girls were just starting to lay. Found six eggs when we returned. Scrambled them up for the girls as well as the dogs. All enjoyed it. Most eggs were peewee to small size except for one which was a large and a double yolk at that. We are experiencing 100 degrees as well. I check every few hours and would recommend that.

The eggs were most likely good since you fed them to your girls and dog.

 

[BYC910]

The problem with heat and eggs is if they are fertile. They will start to develop in temperatures greater than 95 degrees .When it's a day and night heat. Best thing to do is as soon as you gather, them cool them down to around forty degrees and that gives them a long self life . If they aren't fertile then it takes about eight to ten days for them to start to go bad in the heat . The yokes will stick in about five to seven days unless they are turned . And the air cells will grow faster . I would eat that egg .Or just put it in the fridg. it will lose all it moisture in a year are so . I still have the first blue egg my chickens laid . Been in the fridg. for three or four years .And it don't weigh nothing .

 

[EggWalrus]

The problem with heat and eggs is if they are fertile. They will start to develop in temperatures greater than 95 degrees .When it's a day and night heat. Best thing to do is as soon as you gather, them cool them down to around forty degrees and that gives them a long self life . If they aren't fertile then it takes about eight to ten days for them to start to go bad in the heat . The yokes will stick in about five to seven days unless they are turned . And the air cells will grow faster . I would eat that egg .Or just put it in the fridg. it will lose all it moisture in a year are so . I still have the first blue egg my chickens laid . Been in the fridg. for three or four years .And it don't weigh nothing .

DW has a small basket of little Fairy Eggs in the kitchen window, and you're right, they don't weight nothing.

 

[aart]

You can do the float test, fill up a big cup of water and put the egg in it, if it sinks it's good, but if it floats it's gross.

This float test only shows the age of the egg, due to evaporation of liquid from egg(which is replaced with air-what makes them float)and doesn't tell if it's 'bad' or not.
Opening the egg and using your eyes and nose will tell you if egg is 'bad'.

 

[HuskerHens18]

This float test only shows the age of the egg, due to evaporation of liquid from egg(which is replaced with air-what makes them float)and doesn't tell if it's 'bad' or not.
Opening the egg and using your eyes and nose will tell you if egg is 'bad'.

Ah okay. I wouldn't know that as I only saw someone else give similar advice. I hate eggs so I know nothing about them, I only save the fresh ones as gifts to my family.
That's good to know, thank you!

 

[ronott1]

Everyone here is so brave lol, I wouldn't eat an egg that's been in the heat over 12 hours. I check once in the late morning and once in the evening.

You can tell when an egg is bad very easily. I float test them when I find a hidden nest.

Your eggs will be fine! Hatching eggs are at that temperature for 21 and do not rot unless there was something wrong with the egg

 

[ronott1]

This float test only shows the age of the egg, due to evaporation of liquid from egg(which is replaced with air-what makes them float)and doesn't tell if it's 'bad' or not.
Opening the egg and using your eyes and nose will tell you if egg is 'bad'.

True! But is it a good place to start. If the egg floats I do not open them because they are nearly always bad. Even if they sink, open them into a bowl first.

Actually, I always open the eggs into a bowl. I have been doing that since we had chickens on the prune orchard in the 1970s.