EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Sparkle110]

Seriously!!
And it is worse than skunk AND if it gets on other eggs it can infect them too.
I have not had a stinker in years as I rareley hatch shipped eggs - but was in no doubt about it when there was one. Very carefully placed it in a Baggie before removing it from the bator.

I don't want my eggs to not hatch, what one was the one that was the stinker?

should I leave it a little longer?

FYI these are not from our flock, but it was a quick drive away from where I am to this farm where we got them

 

[Phage]

Seriously!!

And it is worse than skunk AND if it gets on other eggs it can infect them too.

I have not had a stinker in years as I rareley hatch shipped eggs - but was in no doubt about it when there was one. Very carefully placed it in a Baggie before removing it from the bator.

I don't want my eggs to not hatch, what one was the one that was the stinker?

should I leave it a little longer?

FYI these are not from our flock, but it was a quick drive away from where I am to this farm where we got them

You can recognize a Stinker by smell. The whole Bator will small bad if you have one.
Most dead eggs are sterile. Dead eggs will only stink if they have a bacterial infection in them.
You are probably just fine if noting smells bad.

 

[Sparkle110]

When we were cadling, I noticed nothing, if I had, in 2 shakes of a lamb's tail I would be on here asking"WHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

 

[ChickenCanoe]

When we were cadling, I noticed nothing, if I had, in 2 shakes of a lamb's tail I would be on here asking"WHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

Unless your olfactory senses don't work, you'll know when you open the incubator. Then you can sniff test all of them. I've only had a stinker once and a leaker once.
I had to remove a whole rail of the turner with the leaker. It was glued in place. I removed all the other eggs, carried the rail to the compost pile and broke the egg into it. Just a bit of cleaning but no problem compared to a stinker.

 

[Sparkle110]

Unless your olfactory senses don't work, you'll know when you open the incubator. Then you can sniff test all of them. I've only had a stinker once and a leaker once.
I had to remove a whole rail of the turner with the leaker. It was glued in place. I removed all the other eggs, carried the rail to the compost pile and broke the egg into it. Just a bit of cleaning but no problem compared to a stinker.

that would be bad, and that's a lot of extra work to do

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Expect the unexpected.
I wanted to add that it is extremely rare for all eggs to hatch without a glitch. Some animals just aren't meant to survive and there are always some infertiles - for lots of reasons.

 

[Sparkle110]

Expect the unexpected.
I wanted to add that it is extremely rare for all eggs to hatch without a glitch. Some animals just aren't meant to survive and there are always some infertiles - for lots of reasons.

Wait, if you just told me to expect the unexpected, then does that make the unexpected expected, and the expected unexpected?

 

[Phage]

 
Expect the unexpected.
I wanted to add that it is extremely rare for all eggs to hatch without a glitch. Some animals just aren't meant to survive and there are always some infertiles - for lots of reasons.

Wait, if you just told me to expect the unexpected, then does that make the unexpected expected, and the expected unexpected?

Methinks yer messing with us

 

[Sparkle110]

Methinks yer messing with us

Just wondering

 

[Phage]

I need some help here. This is just outside the kitchen door. Anyone know what it is?