Laying eggs in the sun - still good?

[fmaddux]

I have an Americana who has decided to lay her eggs near my flower box, so her eggs end up laying in the sun all day. Are the eggs still OK to eat?

I'm new to this. We just started getting eggs this month. So exciting!

Thanks!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I have an Americana who has decided to lay her eggs near my flower box, so her eggs end up laying in the sun all day. Are the eggs still OK to eat?

I'm new to this. We just started getting eggs this month. So exciting!

Thanks!

Welcome to BYC - if you are finding and gathering the egg(s) daily, which should be easy since you know where she likes to leave them, it's no big deal. Unless the eggs have sat there for days/weeks there is no issue regarding safety of consumption and even then you could easily employ a float test and/or crack the eggs into a dish separate from whatever you are wanting to use them for (ie not into the bowl you are making cookies in or directly into the pan where you are cooking other food) so that you can give them a look/sniff over to determine if they are "off.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Are you interested in training her to lay elsewhere, or okay with her laying where she has chosen?

 

[dragonlady12]

My Phyllis lays her eggs wherever she wants. lol

She even comes in the house, jumps into the cat tree, lays her egg then demands to be let out the back door. I think Americana's/EE's are just weird like that . lol

 

[fmaddux]

Are you interested in training her to lay elsewhere, or okay with her laying where she has chosen? 

Yes, I'd love to train her to lay in the hen boxes. A few hens are laying in there, but some of the hens have found places around the yard more appealing. It truly is like an easter egg hunt every day. Lol!

 

[fmaddux]

My Phyllis lays her eggs wherever she wants. lol 

She even comes in the house, jumps into the cat tree, lays her egg then demands to be let out the back door. I think Americana's/EE's are just weird like that . lol 

How interesting! Thanks for sharing this with me.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

My Phyllis lays her eggs wherever she wants. lol

She even comes in the house, jumps into the cat tree, lays her egg then demands to be let out the back door. I think Americana's/EE's are just weird like that . lol

LOL - come to think of it, the "not quite right in the head" bird in our flock is an EE too, she is flat nuts!

Yes, I'd love to train her to lay in the hen boxes. A few hens are laying in there, but some of the hens have found places around the yard more appealing. It truly is like an easter egg hunt every day. Lol!

Do you have a run attached to the coop that can be used to confine the flock for a while or is it a coop that opens out into your yard in general with no enclosed run around it?

 

[fmaddux]

I do have a run attached to the coop. I've tried confining them to the run, but the hens that lay outside the coopy just lay the eggs under the coop instead of in the boxes. Sigh....