***Actually, I’ve hunted eggs. It fascinated me that they were soft and warm when first out of the chicken.***
They are warm, wet, but not soft. I have gathered eggs, finding some that just came out of the chicken, I mean the egg plops on your hand when you reun it under the setting hen. When slaughtering some older hens we found eggs in all stages of development still in the hen. They are not soft when they come out.