Hot eggs in the coop -- OK to eat?

[Warhascome]

Get more ventilation in the coop thats way too hot for the chickens. As far as them going bad I am not sure. Popular belief is that you think they would but I have seen people post that they leave them in a basket on the counter until they eat them. Refridgeration does two things stops the fertilization process and preserves the eggs longer. Often times store eggs are up to 3 months old. But if you look at the hen she sits on the egg till it hatches,so you think its not bad to be hot.

Now that is funny. I have wide open 14 x 14 on my doors each side with wind blowing thru. Outdoor temp is 102, and inside is 102. doesn't matter how much ventalation you have if there is no trees. Venting can only do so much. if you have your coop under a tree, then I can see getting some cool breeze to go through, and having an exhaust fan up near the top go get the heat out. But from what I see on this ladys post is, ' are they safe after that many hours in a hot coop?' I am in Texas and it is not getting any colder here. 100+ every day, and then down to 78 at night.

 

[Warhascome]

Well there's not much more I can do to ventilate the coop. If it's 98-100 outside it can't get much cooler inside the coop unless I install an air conditioner, which I'm pretty sure my hubby would divorce me over! The coop has 2 windows, the door into the run, a ceiling vent, and I have a fan in one of the windows. So it's ventilated to the max. The girls spend a lot of time under the coop in the dirt with frozen 2-liter bottles I put under there.

To your point, though, about hot eggs -- if a chicken is what 95-100 degrees body temp, then I suppose the egg is OK at the temp for several hours. I guess I will not worry about it.

I was thinking the same thing. But since I am a hubby to a wife and they are my chickens, and I lost one due to heat last week, my new coop I am currently building will have AC as 102 out is also 102 in, and I don't have trees. Good luck with your chickens. Hope they can stay cool. It is a challenge.

 

[FunClucks]

It takes about 3 days at 101F or 98F (with forced air) to see evidence of incubation in fertilized chicken eggs. So if you collect eggs every day and cool them down in the evening, even if that's only to 75F, I'm thinking you should be fine.

 

[Warhascome]

It takes about 3 days at 101F or 98F (with forced air) to see evidence of incubation in fertilized chicken eggs. So if you collect eggs every day and cool them down in the evening, even if that's only to 75F, I'm thinking you should be fine.

I have a broody that I have to keep pushing off the unfertile eggs and kick her out of the 100 deg coop. I got rid of my rooster and hatched 3 in an incubator. I just wish she would of went broody when I had several dozen eggs of fertilized eggs. LOL

 

[FunClucks]

I have a broody that I have to keep pushing off the unfertile eggs and kick her out of the 100 deg coop. I got rid of my rooster and hatched 3 in an incubator. I just wish she would of went broody when I had several dozen eggs of fertilized eggs. LOL

That's always how it goes, isn't it? When you want a broody you can't get one, and then when you don't want them to do it, they go broody. LOL