A Stinker In Lockdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ms.cluckling]

I sniffed a few...
I'm going to wait for a few seconds for the humidity to go back up again. It should take 5 minutes. My bator's good at getting the humidity back fast.
I'm really scared.
Some ideas about the stinker:

a)one of my eggs is rocking back and forth. is it close to hatching, or is it just going to explode? Because if its about to hatch, I don't want to move that one.

b) I have two eggs in there that I never took out yesterday when I removed all the duds. I didn't take 'em out cause one is too dark to tell, and the other is...strange looking. Inside it looks really weird, like it developed differently than all the others. I think it may have developed, and then quit on me...

c) another egg of mine is also different. It always looked the same as the others, until recently. The embryo is smaller, and is in the top of the egg rather than the middle.

d) two of the eggs are very porous. When I look at them sitting in the incubator, I can see every pore as a gray translucent dot. Is that bad?

Do you all think the problem is a, b, c, d, or something else?

btw, what do you mean by drops/formations on the eggs?

 

[LarryPQ]

Dont touch the rockers. That is the chick kicking..

 

[ms.cluckling]

can it leak while it's kicking?? Maybe it...punctured something??

 

[LarryPQ]

Not likely.

*DEEEEEP BREATH*

Now chant: It will be ok, it will be ok.

 

[LarryPQ]

So does the incubator stink, or does it make you barf a little in your mouth?

The incubator has a "smell" towards the end of the hatch: you can smell it through the house (or at least, I can).

A stinky egg is different. It REALLY stinks. An exploded egg will stink up your house for weeks. (at least it did when I had a turkey egg explode)

 

[ms.cluckling]

thanks.

Okay, so I was able to smell two more before I had to close it again. I must wait 5 more minutes...
One of them Problem C... well that egg smells a little off, but I don't think that little bit of stink could cause the whole bator to smell the way it does, so it must be something else. more likely than not, that egg GOT its smell from the incubator. So far I haven't seen a leaker, and I'm NOT touching the rocker...

itwillbeokayitwillbeokayitwillbeokay! *deep breaths*
this is killing me!

 

[elizabethbinary]

I'm placing a bet on the second egg from B. *puts money down*

Anyone wanna bet against?

 

[ms.cluckling]

Quote:
the incubator has a...smell? What kind of smell. What I'm smelling is bearable, but still stinks none the less.

Do stinky eggs smell like...have you ever smelled a stinkbomb? Some random people at my school set one off once. It smells kinda like sulfur. That's NOT what I'm smelling. Definitley not sulfur. But still bad...like bad pickled cabbage...er...you've prolly never smelled that either...once my grandma's pickled cabbage went bad, but...

 

[ms.cluckling]

what happens when an egg explodes? will it kill the other eggs?

 

[justmeandtheflock]

If you smell each of the eggs you will know without a doubt if one is bad. Once the 1st chick hatches it knocks all of the other eggs around anyway so don't worry too much about picking them up. Just be gentle because you don't want one exploding on your other eggs if it is bad. The bator just gets a rotten smell during the hatch kind of like bad food. I can smell it as soon as I walk into the room with the bator. I would suspect the eggs you listed as b. Did the contens slosh around when you candled?