How long does a chickens egg last in hot weather?

encourage her to take them, otherwise they should be fine for a while, remember when a chook is getting a clutch together they sit and wait for a while before she has got enough to sit on and hatch. You can test them by putting them in water. If they float they are bad, if they sink they should be fine. If you don't want to eat them, cook them up and feed them back to the chickens, they will love it!


On really hot days in Las Vegas if an egg look cracked I crack it right into the food raw THEY LOOOOOOOOVE it slerrping it up in seconds I imagine the moist is good for this dry heat. And no extra step of cooking it.
 
I've eaten 8 day old eggs from the coop before, in mild weather, say, 75 to 85 degree weather here in Texas, the yolks were runnier then usual and they did have a stronger egg flavor, and 5 day old eggs out of the coop in 90 plus weather that were still fine.

I just crack them in a bowl separately before I add them to the pan or whatever if I question them.

At room temp they are good for 2 -3 weeks, but I do throw out any egg with the slightest crack in them, well, I cook them for the chooks or the dog if they are only a day or two old. At the very least, don't waste them completely, you can keep the shells to add back into your chicken feed or compost, if your worried about rotten egg, then bake the rinsed shells a bit, that is very valuable calcium to your chicks, and our heritage and home grown breeds have way thicker shells then that of the store bought variety, and therefore use up more calcium.

Extra calcium in your compost keeps your tomatoes skins from splitting as they grow, btw.


THANK YOUUUUU
this was why I joined we had a crazy heat wave go fig Las Vegas and one of my egg buyers is ordering but the eggs were out side a couple days. Looks like should be fine to use these eggs. We can't wait to move back to TEXAS so we can have acres and you guessed it MORE CHIX!!!
Thanks again for the info
 

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