Yes it's bacteria. As soon as you see "seeping" you should remove the egg. It's a sure sign it is contaminated and it COULD explode and contaminate the rest.Okay so it's not letting me post pictures but I was wondering if anyone can help me solve this mystery. I'm beyond baffled. So I have nine eggs in lockdown, and when I candled them on day 17 they were all super lively. Well then I wake up the next morning and one of my eggs has orange beading on it. Thinking it was just water which might have fallen from the top, I went to wipe it off and it was sticky? I left it alone, and later that night I came back and it was COVERED in this amber beading. Now, this was the egg that I was rooting for, he was my liveiest little guy. Finally I candled him, worried, and there was a semi circle on the side of the airsac that cut into the place the baby was going to be? I water candled and nothing. When I was sure he was gone I did an eggtospy and the yolk was broken and nasty in color (probably what ended up on the outside of the egg).
But my question is what could have happened in literally 24 hours to destroy it that much? Can bacteria really work that fast? The rest of my eggs are fine. I even tried comparing pictures on here and couldn't find anything that looked like what happened to him.
I'm so baffled.
last spring I had several 100% hatches on my welsh harlequin eggs, incubated in a large redwood incubator with dozens of chicken eggs. Humidity was about 30% average most of the time, except the last couple days each batch of chicken eggs were due when it was about 60%, then I let it drop back down. I think it might depend on the breed; so far no luck at all with Muscovy
Yep mine were Muscovys.