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Many countries do not refrigerate fresh eggs; they are sold and consumed without refrigeration. In North America however the practice is to refrigerate immediately.

When a hen wants to hatch chicks, she continues to lay an egg each day until the nest is full. THEN she sits on them for 21 days, after which they hatch. Many hens sit on 10 or 15 eggs, so the first egg laid sits around at room temperature for up to two weeks before she sits on it full-time, keeping them at incubation temperature.

Chickens would not have survived to modern times if eggs went bad unless chilled. Even a little bacteria growing inside an egg would kill the chick. Hens kept in healthy conditions lay healthy eggs that do not need constant refrigeration. North Americans refrigerate to guard against that extremely rare egg (1/20,000 even in factory-farmed eggs that are laid by highly stressed hens) that has some salmonella inside the egg.

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They do if u want 2 eat them but if u want them 2 hatch then dont

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no i have 13 hens and i do not put the eggs in the frige

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Yes of course otherwise they'll go all horrible.

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Its best to put them in the refrigerator so they don't start to develop (this isn't likely to happen, unless your house is extremely warm and moist.

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yes it can be

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Q: Do farm fresh eggs have to be refrigerated?
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