6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[bamadude]

The egg white is an excellent growing medium for bacteria...it's like protein and water in a semi-liquid form.  Remember in science class when you grew stuff on petri dishes?  Well, same formula except it's not nutrient agar (seaweed protein) but egg white.   Protein grows bacteria, and bacteria love nice warm moist places..like an egg in an incubator.  The weeping is due to pressure being built up in the egg by multiplying bacteria (which normally get in via a tear in the sac or from minute cracks or places where the protective bloom is off the egg) and the waste the bacteria produce pushing exudate out the egg pores is the weeping.  The egg explodes when pressure builds to an extreme.  Often upon candling right before explosion the egg will appear abnormally dark because the bacteria has multiplied to dense amounts...  But if your egg is weeping you don't need to candle to figure out it should be chucked.

"If it's weeping, not worth keeping."



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talk nerdy to me

 

[Peep_Show]

Bama, Go to Bed. Give your synapses a rest. The goofy factor is off the bell curve.

BTW, you're the No. 1 poster at present.

 

[JW12]

The funny thing about bama being the #1 poster is.... It's all about songs, flash lights, and talking nerdy lmao

 

[hennible]

Nice nerdy talk peep

 

[blackgoat]

Bama, Go to Bed. Give your synapses a rest. The goofy factor is off the bell curve.

BTW, you're the No. 1 poster at present.

If Bama wins #1 poster, I'll donate 5 needle-felted chick poops to the prize!

 

[Peep_Show]

LOL... What? Little fuzz bits?

 

[blackgoat]

LOL... What? Little fuzz bits?

Yup!

 

[Dish chickens]

If Bama wins #1 poster, I'll donate 5 needle-felted chick poops to the prize!

 

[Roan]

You and Harry Potter!

I had thought it was caused by the yolk being scrambled (usually from shipping), but I had to cull eleven that were seeping this time and I cracked them all open to examine and the yolks were intact on all but two. So I am at a loss.

I did not know this...it changes everything, EVERYTHING!!!! Harry Pottah and I share something? This can not be! Excuse me, I must now go on a rampage and smash stuff...

 

[shlac]

Does this count as a HAL egg? OMG I am freaking out. Anyone who knows me on Facebook please tell no one, not even husband knows yet! (Thinking Christmas shocker as we have 4 already....) So while my chicken HAL eggs don't seem to be doing well, this human one sure does!

Ah! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Just... if you have a girl, don't name her HAL, okay?