Its impossible to tell unless that was in the dark and u had flash on i found best way to do it for a pic to ask is to candle it at diff angles in complete dark like a bathroom and have some one else take the pictures as u hold and candle best way for buttons cuz they are hard to see, and thats a darker egg so u could just be seeing dark and thinking its nothing , also show a pic of the crack,
That has a chick, I find at that stage with coturnix, and I assume buttons are similar, the best way is look carefully for motion inside, but if I’m locking down and it looks like that, I consider it probably fine.
You've had eggs explode?? How common is that? Ive never had an exploding egg in all the years I've been incubating... the only times eggs exploded were when I threw the nasty rotten ones into the garden and they POPPED when they hit the ground.
With the new Brinsea, it holds so many, so I’m lazy and don’t candle first. I never had an egg splode before this hatch, but 3 exploded last week and the smell was frickin terrible (but only when I opened the top, I didn’t notice until I went to lock down a different tray). I’m guessing those 3 had cracks from being out in freezing temps and since I didn’t candle all 130ish eggs that I set between both bators, I let it go unchecked and they popped. Explode is not really accurate though, there was no propelling of goo or anything, one cracked at the bottom, which is the top when looking down at the tray, like 3 chunks peeled open and goo leaked out the side and down and out the bottom of the tray. The other 2 broke at the top of the egg, (bottom when looking down at the bator) and leaked out the bottom of the tray. I cleaned up as best I could without disturbing the locked down eggs, it still smelled bad tho.
