Hatching eggs

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Oct 14, 2013
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I've come across small dots of yellow matter on some of my hatching eggs, not sure what it is. Any ideas out there in chicken world
 
Are these eggs that you are incubating? I would wonder if they are weeping/seeping/sappy, people seem to call it different things. That usually means they are rotten or have a bacterial infection and the pressure is forcing the contents out of the egg... a lot of times they smell. The Hatching Eggs 101 article from the BYC Learning Center has pictures of sappy eggs about half way down the page. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
 
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Kelsie2290 said:
Are these eggs that you are incubating? I would wonder if they are weeping/seeping/sappy, people seem to call it different things. That usually means they are rotten or have a bacterial infection and the pressure is forcing the contents out of the egg... a lot of times they smell. The Hatching Eggs 101 article from the BYC Learning Center has pictures of sappy eggs about half way down the page. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101
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You mentioned a smell but mine don't seem to be smelly , is it worth hanging on to them or is it a certain.
 
If they are actually leaking it is pretty certain they have a problem. Are you able to candle the eggs? How long have they been incubating? If you don't want to cull them, is there any way you can separate them away from the good eggs? As All Henned Up mentioned, if one of them does get to the point where it blows, you are going to have a big mess and probably contaminate the other eggs and the incubator.
 

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