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Does hot weather effect eggs??

  • 27-05-2012 07:30PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20


    Does anyone know if this hot weather effects eggs. We collect the eggs every day but there is one hen sitting on the eggs and it could be 2/3 days before they get collected. (she usually moves box and then we collect) It would never be more than 3 days though. I gave my parents 6 eggs the other day and they tell me 4 of them were bad!!! As in they split and ran everywhere when cracked open. They are definitely not more than a week old allowing for them sitting here in our kitchen for few days. We sell a few eggs locally and now we don't know what to do as obviously we don't want to sell bad eggs.

    All comments welcome...


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 limeric


    check + collect every morn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 SligoEdo


    Your hen shouldn't be sitting on them unless she's going broody. One of ours takes about an hour when she goes in to lay...but none of them will sit there for a few days.
    Is it the same hen that's always sitting on them? If so, make a broody coop for her to get her out of the broodiness.

    As for the eggs going bad, I'd imagine sitting under the hen for 2-3 days would cause that.


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