It seemed to be just around the chick inside the egg. Where I live is very humid, so I struggle with controlling humidity. I’ve been trying to do dry hatches and only adding water at lockdown.
Thank you for your advice and insight! 🤗 I’m hoping to figure out the perfect humidity levels for my...
You were right, the chick wasn’t developed properly. I assisted it the rest of the way out of the shell, it was completely unzipped on its own and pretty badly shrink wrapped. It died a few minutes later. It sort of looked like it had some of its innards formed outside its body. But I’m glad to...
Update: 3 healthy chicks hatched last night! But not the drippy egg. That one is still the same as it was when I took these photos last night. I have a feeling something is really wrong with it, especially since the others don’t seem to have the same problem and came out of clean egg shells.
If...
It’s day 17 for my quail eggs and this egg is the first one to start unzipping. But the edges of the egg look like they’re caked with brown sticky stuff. ☹️ on the side where the beak is emerging, the brown stuff is actually dripping out of the egg.
I’ve hatched 2 other batches of quail eggs...