Frozen eggs?

owing to the long hours I sometimes work in this weather I have had several frozen eggs (craked but the membrane still intact) and we have eaten them but if they are oozing then best to bin them. However mine have laid them in the nest boxes and not under their perches. Perhaps you need to encourage your girls to lay in the correct place by placing dummy eggs in the nest boxes (or even a couple of golf balls would suffice). As you cannot be sure when they were laid (mine get collected daily) then I would bin this lot and start checking every day for fresh ones 

I've been fetching frozen eggs out of the coop for 2 weeks now, we've eaten them and we're all still alive. It seems that them freezing has no effect on them at all. All 3 of my girls are still laying and some eggs are already frozen when I go out to them in a morning, so it cant be helped. I reckon you'll be fine providing they're not cracked and leaking x

What time of day are you collecting the eggs? I collect in the late afternoon when I give them their corn so about 3.30pm. We have had minus 18 C in this area at night and I've had no problems with frozen eggs except for the occasional one laid on the floor of the house that I've not noticed until the following day. As they are cracked because of he egg expanding inside the shell I've either chucked it away or given it to the dogs.

thats why - your girls are sleeping on them 

We've found a few frozen eggs over the last couple of weeks, mostly when we haven't been able to collect the eggs during the day and so they have been there until early evening.  We also found a few in the old rabbit hutch that the girls have acquired as an extra laying coop, which we didn't realise was being used for a few days so the eggs had been out in the cold for a couple of days.
If they've popped then they get thrown, otherwise they get put in with our eggs, not the ones that we sell.  Between a hubbie that eats everything in sight and never gets ill and a labrador they soon get eaten and neither of them have shown any signs of ill health.
If in doubt, feed them to the o/h!
 

I have one or possibly two chickens who have started to lay,i found two eggs in my smaller coop,after that there was nothing,untill my daughter went in to muck out her horses stable and found 8 eggs,most of them were cracked by the frost,so i made an omlette and gave it to the dogs.

I will pick up a couple of dummy eggs to try and encourage the hens to lay in the nest boxes,the thought of scouring the stables,hay barn,storage barn and tack rooms every day for eggs is not apealling.

I've got 2 girls still laying most days and 2 girls who are just finishing moults and haven't laid since October.
The other day I was out by the coop and noticed one of the non-laying girls wasn't in the run.
'Oh good', thinks I, she's starting to lay again and must be in the nest box. Sure enough had a little peek and she was in there. BUT no egg when she came out later.
So I wondered, perhaps she's going in there to warm up her feet (she won't go out into the snow like the others and often stands on one leg to warm up her feet), but also might she be going in there to sit on the eggs the other 2 lay to warm them up and stop them freezing? I suppose if they were fertile someone in the flock would have to keep their temp above zero.
Anyone else's girls doing this?