Incubating eggs exposed to below zero temps?

[mkelle11]

Will they develop? If theres a chance, about how many days in 0-32 degree weather can they have been exposed to before they are no longer hatchable?
I mean, the eggs arent cracked or anything, like they do when they freeze solid.

I know that some of them must be fertile, as I just opened a fertile one when I made cookies a few hours ago.

Anyways, thanks.

 

[mamaKate]

HI!

I'm not sure about this. It probably matters alot how long they were exposed.

 

[BirdBoy88]

i had a banty hen 2 years ago set on a nest of eggs she hid in a bush during the winter with snow on the ground and she sat on 8 eggs and 4 hatch so it happens

 

[swtangel321]

They dont always crack when they freeze, if you can get the egg soon enough after its layed you MIGHT be able to hatch it. Its hard with temps like that. Plus fertility drops in the cold winter months.

Put a heat lamp or 2 aiming on the nest boxes to help them from freezing !! Or wait till the weather gets better, you will have better luck that way.