12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

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If I didn’t set dirty-ish eggs, I would never set duck eggs ever. Lol. As long as they’re not cracked, wet for longer than a short period of time, and not like caked in manure, I scrape off the worst of it and set them anyway. I have washed eggs before but I find they dehydrate a lot faster and it’s hard to keep the humidity up in my incubators, so I just leave the really stuck stuff on them. Haven’t had a single rotten egg, except for a few stinky late dead quail, and those weren’t dirty, just hard to see into. Lol.
What is it about quails. I had always thought exploding eggs was a rare occasion because I had never seen it at work when I worked at a small chicken farm but during my 3 years working with quails I had several rotten eggsplosions. I never did notice any issues it caused to hatch rate of everyone else tho
 
What is it about quails. I had always thought exploding eggs was a rare occasion because I had never seen it at work when I worked at a small chicken farm but during my 3 years working with quails I had several rotten eggsplosions. I never did notice any issues it caused to hatch rate of everyone else tho
I’ve had duck and chicken eggs explode, but no quail yet. I suspect that the quail exploders were thin shelled, got cracked and contaminated. The other shells were thick enough to ward off the germs.
 
What is it about quails. I had always thought exploding eggs was a rare occasion because I had never seen it at work when I worked at a small chicken farm but during my 3 years working with quails I had several rotten eggsplosions. I never did notice any issues it caused to hatch rate of everyone else tho
I know right? Thankfully none exploded on me until I tossed them outside, but you could smell them as soon as you opened the incubator. Never had chicken or duck eggs be that bad before I caught them. 🤷🏼‍♀️ True though, all the other eggs that hatched, hatched fine with no issues. Didn’t seem affected by the stink bombs.
 
I know right? Thankfully none exploded on me until I tossed them outside, but you could smell them as soon as you opened the incubator. Never had chicken or duck eggs be that bad before I caught them. 🤷🏼‍♀️ True though, all the other eggs that hatched, hatched fine with no issues. Didn’t seem affected by the stink bombs.
I think I’ve only had one hatch that failed because of it.
 
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