EXPLODING EGGS IN INCUBATOR

[Hidden Blessings Farm]

I have a question. I am having eggs (rotten of course and very very smelly) explode in my sportsman incubator. They were exploding sometimes when I touched them to put them into the hatcher and just the other day I had one explode while I wasnt home and came home to a horrific odor. Any ideas why this is happening? I have never had incubating eggs explode like this so Im wondering what is different. Its not from specific breeds or specific sources just random eggs.

 

[Katy]

Are these shipped eggs or your own? Could you have some mold or bacteria growing your incubator that is spreading to the eggs?

 

[gabrielle1976]

It may be that your first egg introduced bactira and some others have fallen to it , I dont know Im not expert and have only had one funky quail egg befor.
Im shure someone will know more .

 

[pips&peeps]

I would say they are old eggs. I have had a sportsman for four years now and never had one explode. I did have some shipped to me that started to ooze, but obviously they were old eggs, only one hatched.

 

[Hidden Blessings Farm]

you know now that I think about it they are some of the older eggs. None of them are ones that my chickens laid. They are all ones I have gotten from other people. I am waiting on the eggs I have in to finish hatching so that I can break down everything and give it a good thorough cleaning and disinfecting to make sure its not bacteria.

 

[peakpoultry]

I was wondering about that, I had some eggs shipped the other day and it looked like they were oozing yellow stuff, but I put them in the incubator anyway. Does that mean that they are old eggs?