CANDLING--- what am I seeing in my eggs??

[terrilhb]

I have 16 days and I will take pics of everything for you. and post them.

 

[ms.cluckling]

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I'll try

 

[ms.cluckling]

question for you all--
one egg is shaking...
and its only day 18.
it started shaking on day 17. Is this bad if its doing this so early? Also, how long does it take for it to hatch after the shaking begins?
AND, how high can the humidity go during lockdown? What happens if you open the bator?
HEEELP

Info about the shaky egg--it is a medium/small, white egg. The breed is unknown. Its name is E. Egg e.

 

[dsqard]

You want higher humidity on lockdown and if you are not there yet it sounds like you need to be. Don't open the incubator during lockdown. Sounds like one of your eggs might be getting ready to pip if you are seeing it "wiggle". That is a good sign. Like someone said (it might have been you who said it) sit on your hands and watch. Once they hatch they can stay in the incubator for quite a while. You want to avoid opening the incubator to pull a chick out when others have just pipped. It can cause shrink wrapping which can kill the chicks in the shells.

 

[ms.cluckling]

What if you open it for a few seconds to adjust the humdity (if its too high)?
Is the problem letting the humidity out, or just opening it in general?

 

[dsqard]

It is letting the humidity get too low after hatching has started. I don't know what kind of incubator you are using but some are better at recovering humidity than others. I wouldn't chance it if you don't know how fast your incubator will recover the humidity.

 

[ms.cluckling]

I have a homemade incubator...
its made from a styrofoam cooler.
Well, I risked it, and its fine. Now, there seems to be yet ANOTHER problem. When I opened my incubator to fix the humidity, I smelled, well, a smell that could a make a skunk jealous! What do I do??!! I'm thinking it might be from an egg I had a while ago. An egg that (I wrote it in this thread somewhere) I dropped and cracked in the first few days of incubation while I was turning it. Do you think that, maybe, there's some residue in the incubator left over from when the egg broke, and that's what's going bad? (I cleaned it as well as possible...)

 

[Katy]

ms.cluckling :

I have a homemade incubator...
its made from a styrofoam cooler.
Well, I risked it, and its fine. Now, there seems to be yet ANOTHER problem. When I opened my incubator to fix the humidity, I smelled, well, a smell that could a make a skunk jealous! What do I do??!! I'm thinking it might be from an egg I had a while ago. An egg that (I wrote it in this thread somewhere) I dropped and cracked in the first few days of incubation while I was turning it. Do you think that, maybe, there's some residue in the incubator left over from when the egg broke, and that's what's going bad? (I cleaned it as well as possible...)

Either that or you have another egg that is bad. I'd say since you haven't noticed the smell till now you probably have a bad egg.​

 

[ms.cluckling]

I checked, but nothing's leaking...

 

[Katy]

ms.cluckling :

I checked, but nothing's leaking...

They don't have to be leaking to be bad. Did you do the sniff test on them?​