Just had this happen to me in the steam release of A16.
Fertilized eggs that are "ruined" (by being frozen, for instance) are classified as food, but it doesn't appear that colonists actually use them for food. I don't know for certain that they aren't used as food, but they sat in my freezer for an extended period of time, so I'm inclined to believe this is the case. Unfertilized eggs seem to work correctly.
I wanted to start raising chickens, so I created a new stockpile inside my heated barn, for the express purpose of storing fertilized eggs. Surprisingly, the colonists carried the ruined eggs to the new stockpile where they sat, still shown as "ruined". When a hen laid her next egg, a colonist placed it in the same stack and lo-and-behold, "Egg progress: 1%" appeared.
A few days later all 50-odd eggs hatched at once.
Fertilized eggs that are "ruined" (by being frozen, for instance) are classified as food, but it doesn't appear that colonists actually use them for food. I don't know for certain that they aren't used as food, but they sat in my freezer for an extended period of time, so I'm inclined to believe this is the case. Unfertilized eggs seem to work correctly.
I wanted to start raising chickens, so I created a new stockpile inside my heated barn, for the express purpose of storing fertilized eggs. Surprisingly, the colonists carried the ruined eggs to the new stockpile where they sat, still shown as "ruined". When a hen laid her next egg, a colonist placed it in the same stack and lo-and-behold, "Egg progress: 1%" appeared.
A few days later all 50-odd eggs hatched at once.
