EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[daxigait]

Hi everyone! I'm trying to sort through which eggs to put in the bator and which seem like they'll be problematic. I've got an otherwise beautiful local cream legbar egg, but it has some discoloring on the pointed end -- it almost looks like a water line, as if it was slightly damp or oily up to a certain level. It doesn't feel oily or damp, and it's not cracked in any way. It's just . . . a bit darker.
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Thoughts on what this is? Is it still safe to put in the incubator?

Are all her eggs like it? I had a hen that laid eggs with the same series of spots all the time, and one like that one.

 

[kwhites634]

Ohhhh! I’m so glad it wasn’t you.
I hate how the voice type says we’re swearing/using bad language.

That ain't the half of it. Voice type screws Dax's posts up so bad that I can't make heads or tails out of most of them, even on the 3rd or 4th reading.

 

[BullChick]

Hi everyone! I'm trying to sort through which eggs to put in the bator and which seem like they'll be problematic. I've got an otherwise beautiful local cream legbar egg, but it has some discoloring on the pointed end -- it almost looks like a water line, as if it was slightly damp or oily up to a certain level. It doesn't feel oily or damp, and it's not cracked in any way. It's just . . . a bit darker.
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Thoughts on what this is? Is it still safe to put in the incubator?

It’s fine. It’s just how it got colored as it was forming.

 

[BullChick]

 

[daxigait]

It’s fine. It’s just how it got colored as it was forming.

That was where I was going, as long as it was normal for that hen.

 

[daxigait]

That ain't the half of it. Voice type screws Dax's posts up so bad that I can't make heads or tails out of most of them, even on the 3rd or 4th reading.

I try to go back and fix the really mangled ones when I get the chance.

 

[daxigait]

Too many of them were voice typed while I'm dropping and hooking trailers or walking in and out of a shipper. So I can talk, but I don't have time to type. Because I'm generally in a hurry due to time issues, I don't proofread. If I waited to proofread them I be too far behind the conversation. At least that's the way it used to be, not anymore.

 

[BullChick]

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Hi everyone! I'm trying to sort through which eggs to put in the bator and which seem like they'll be problematic. I've got an otherwise beautiful local cream legbar egg, but it has some discoloring on the pointed end -- it almost looks like a water line, as if it was slightly damp or oily up to a certain level. It doesn't feel oily or damp, and it's not cracked in any way. It's just . . . a bit darker.
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Thoughts on what this is? Is it still safe to put in the incubator?

candle for shell integrity and air sac formation.

 

[kwhites634]

I try to go back and fix the really mangled ones when I get the chance.

No biggie; I know you're talking while you're driving a bouncy truck, and some words sound like other words to voice recognition software