Step away.....from the flashlight.No candling yet, cluck-cluck. Then you will look like this on day 8.....
LOL, we have a broom named Johnny Bravo! It is our hand held "sweep out the tent" straw broom (it is yellowish and fans out) Someone put sunglasses on it during a camping trip a hundred years ago, and it looked just like the character!
Oh dear, it sounds like they cracked. You will have to try to remove them carefully and check them for cracks and leaks. Hopefully it was only one egg. USPS, this time of year, Ugh, just the lottery - lottery that you will actually get them in one piece! I had a box come, well wrapped, from only 50 miles away and the eggs were still pretty shook up! Ugh!So I'm a little late in starting for NYD hatch thanks to the general antics of USPS. Oh well, just NYDing for funsies anyways. BUT I am having some trouble already!!! This is my very first hatch ever of any breed and my first shipped eggs so I'm still working on the sea legs. I have a couple questions for you guys. I already posted in hatching and incubating and e-mailed Castle Delight (where I got my eggs from) but figured it can't hurt to ask you guys too since many of you are Serama hatching experts
I picked up the eggs from the post office today! Supposedly they rang my doorbell yesterday but I was home all day just waiting for them and they never rang SQUAT! Anywho they left a note on the door that they could be picked up today so I ran right over and got em! USPS is so frustrating sometimes.
I candled to see if I could find the air pockets and they were pretty mobile (from shipping correct?). There were also a lot of little spots inside the eggs, no bigger then the point of a pen. Are those also little air bubbles from being tossed around in the mail?
As soon as I got them I put them pointy end down in an egg carton to let their air bubbles stabilize and when I went to candle them this evening to check it out tonight there was a strange sticky substance on all of their shells. It looks like small sap dropplets. It is clear and almost completely hard. I went to remove one egg from the carton and it stuck to it at one of the little sapplet points. I chipped two eggs trying to get them out, one just straight gentle pulling and another trying to wash the egg from the carton. Is this normal? Should I toss the eggs I chipped? I haven't moved the others for fear of more damage. help
I'm sure you were excited to hatch! Was it for the NYD hatchalong? That would make it double bummer. I really hope next time you have more luck. 
