exploding egg

[sandipuppy]

My Embden girls are sitting on eggs. We thought they should be hatching any day now.
Mom called yesterday and thought she heard a bang and the geese came running out making a big rucus. Investigated to find an egg had exploded .
They still have 5 eggs....does the fact that this egg blew up mean the other ones are likely bad too? could they just have forgotten one when turning, etc?

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Embden girls are sitting on eggs. We thought they should be hatching any day now.
Mom called yesterday and thought she heard a bang and the geese came running out making a big rucus. Investigated to find an egg had exploded .
They still have 5 eggs....does the fact that this egg blew up mean the other ones are likely bad too? could they just have forgotten one when turning, etc?

From all I have heard an exploding egg can put bacteria all over the rest so doing a cleaning as best you can might help if there are others ready to hatch, Get the geese out close the door and wipe off each egg the best you can not sure if you should use warm water, also candle remaining eggs and do sniff test to make sure you don't have more ready to explode.

 

[RURU]

Yes, an egg that explodes on the others can put bacteria on the pours of the eggs and it go through to the live gosling developing and kills them.... You need to rinse ach of the eggs off with warm just warm to the touch to rinse them off good and tap or pat dry and put back. Plus candle while you have them out for cleaning to make sure there is development in the eggs. If none dispose of the non fertile eggs so no more explosions!