Help! I'm not sure if my broodys egg are good & other....

[Ridgerunner]

There is a little more information here. Try candling after dark. Having a non-incubated egg handy for comparison is a good idea too. I still think you don't know what you are looking at but once you see it, you'll wonder how you missed it.

If you smelled the individual eggs and they smelled OK, they are not the problem. You would know if they were. Sure you did not step in something? You do have dogs and cats.

Them being sweaty when she gets off makes absolutely no sense to me. Since they are warmer than the air temperature, they should be dry. I'll keep my jokes to myself on this one. Seriously, I don't understand that.

 

[BooBear]

sweaty meatie broody.....well she is very big so she probably puts of more heat and all that heat is just making her sweat.
another bad joke: meatie is sweatin' hard trying not to crush the hatch....

Sorry could not resist the urge.

Serious note though: I hope that they are all fine and something else is causing that smell.

 

[gritsar]

BooBoo, it's not the meaties eggs that are sweaty. She broke a couple days ago. It's the SFs eggs.

Ridge, I remember reading, maybe it was in Storey's book I dunno, that a hen controls the humidity of the eggs by using her own body's heat. I think that's what I'm seeing. Today is not as warm as the other day and the eggs didn't look as sweaty today.

I did candle again after dark last night. Yes, I was out in the coop at midnight.

The smell was definitely not coming from the eggs or her crate. Maybe one of the meaties pooped. Or...do chickens fart?

Going to candle again this weekend. Have DH candle too. If they still don't look good I'll have to decide - break her (which would certainly kill me

) or find her some new eggs. Sounds like a good reason for another thread to me.

 

[BooBear]

oh ok.