Not setting eggs till next weekend. Store in fridge or room temp?

[Chief]

The farmers almanac says its better to set your eggs next weekend so I'm gonna wait. I have heard you can put eggs in the fridge, but that scares me a little. However things are starting to warm up down here and letting them stay too warm concerns me as well.
Any advice?

 

[Sasquatch]

If you have a cool place of about 50 degrees that is best.

 

[dianneS]

I'd put them on the refrigerator door or close to the front of the frige where its not as cold as the back of the refrigerator, until next weekend. I wouldn't leave them at room temperature for that long though.

 

[95yj]

i'v always been told to never put them in the fridge, not only because of the temp. but because the dry air inside of the refridgerator will dehydrate the egg wikid fast. I usually store mine in my cool/damp basement, if you have a basement this is probably your best bet. Since i usually have people incubate for me my eggs are always sitting around for a while before going into the bator, last year my bantam eggs sat out for three weeks with the wrong end pointing down and i only turned them like 5 times, and i still got over 50% hatch. If their gonna hatch their gonna hatch.

 

[ken]

Hi, I was wondering , when you store eggs does it matter which end is up? just wondering? thanks

 

[Chief]

Thanks everyone!
I dont have a basement, and right now the temp outside is ranging between 40 deg at night to mid 70's during the day. Maybe I'd be best off to leave them out in the shed. I may put a thermometer in the fridge and see what temp the front or door hold. The hen I've collected the eggs from actually set on 20 eggs in november, but the last week the temps were in the teens at night so she hatched zero. She then laid 18 more eggs and seems to have quit laying and isn't acting broody at all. I really want to get some peeps from her so I hate to let these go to waste.

 

[MissDeb]

I have a hatch coming that was stored in the fridge for about a week, some maybe more. 36 of the 40 candled great.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

I have no idea which is best, but I left my eggs in my house (kitchen, cause I didn't know better) for a week before incubating and they have all started developing (candled yesterday at day 15 and they still look great).

 

[dovecanyon]

Quote:
Big end up, pointy end down.

 

[sben451]

When I'm saving eggs prior to incubation, I store them in cardboard cartons, small end down, in my front hallway--because that's the coolest place in my house. I store them down on the floor and prop up one first one end of the carton, then the other end. That's worked well for me.

I do try to only store about 7 days, 10 at the most.