Help! My eggs are leaking!!!

[chicken_china_mom]

I set 11 Chinese goose eggs 32 days ago, and I followed all the directions as far as misting them and turning them, etc. Two were bad (one exploded

), but I had 9 remaining. At lockdown I pulled one more empty, and that left 8. All seemed good, though it's really hard to candle through those shells. I put them on lockdown at day 27, and now it's day 32 and I have at least 4 of the remaining 8 leaking. Some seem to leak a cheesy looking substance, and one seems to be leaking a brown fluid. It stinks in there too. What do I do? Is there hope for any of these eggs? I have never hatched geese before, and I don't think I'll be doing it again either if this how it goes. I really tried to follow every direction. What more can I do? Anyone?

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Please, can anyone help me with this?!

 

[roboboy]

If they're oozing or leaking they're bad. I would throw them. As for the others, geese eggs can take up to 35 days to hatch. Hold them up to your ear, talk to em a little, and listen for peeping or pecking sounds.

 

[Katy]

Take the ones that are leaking out...they are no good.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Oh, that was GROSS!!!!!

I just removed 5 eggs that were leaking, and brought them to the kitchen. While I was checking the remaining 3 eggs, my younger daughter tapped one just to see if it would explode, and it did. Blah, that smell is HORRIBLE!!! So I tapped the other 4 to see if I had a baby in any of them at all. And of those 5, I did have a nearly fully formed baby in one. However it was no longer a brown goose, it was a GREEN goose! Ugh, my house stinks now, and I need to Lysol my kitchen!!! I didn't hear anything in the 3 remaining eggs. I looked them over to make sure they weren't leaking too, and I tapped each one and spoke to it, and put it to my ear, but I didn't hear anything. There were 30+ chicks peeping behind me too, so I don't know if maybe something was peeping softly and I just missed it. I'm holding out hope though. I want them to hatch so I can clean out that bator!!!!!

 

[goosedragon]

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Everybody hates to give you bad news! the leakers are dead and should be carefully discarded. Personally I think the others are dead too, but you can try listening to them if you want. I suggest you get some plastic bags, put the bag over your hand , grab the eggs through the bag and turn the bag inside out so the egg is in the bag and your hand is out. This will contain the mess if they do explode. Leakers usually don't explode but the others may. Sorry to have to tell you. BTW next year if you let the goose hatch them, any egg she pushes out of the nest treat the same way, she will know what eggs are bad in most cases.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

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Everybody hates to give you bad news! the leakers are dead and should be carefully discarded. Personally I think the others are dead too, but you can try listening to them if you want. I suggest you get some plastic bags, put the bag over your hand , grab the eggs through the bag and turn the bag inside out so the egg is in the bag and your hand is out. This will contain the mess if they do explode. Leakers usually don't explode but the others may. Sorry to have to tell you. BTW next year if you let the goose hatch them, any egg she pushes out of the nest treat the same way, she will know what eggs are bad in most cases.

I got these as shipped eggs. These were my first goose eggs. I'm upset cause it's looking like I won't have any goslings at all. Wondering now if I should just order some and let them grow up to hatch out their own eggs! I'll give these last 3 eggs their last 3 days, and then I'll toss them. I keep hoping I'll get something. Maybe a miracle will happen?

 

[wyliefarms]

Exploded eggs are the worst! Someone gave me peacock eggs once and one exploded....gross!

 

[chicken_china_mom]

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I can't seem to get that smell out of my nose. Ugh, it's disgusting! I've never had a chicken egg explode, but nearly ALL of these geese eggs have! Makes me not want to incubate geese again...

 

[goosedragon]

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I can't seem to get that smell out of my nose. Ugh, it's disgusting! I've never had a chicken egg explode, but nearly ALL of these geese eggs have! Makes me not want to incubate geese again...

Try gently sniffing some household ammonia, it should neutralize the sulfur smell (Chemist by profession) Chicken eggs have more pores than waterfowl plus that waxy coat on waterfowl eggs. and the shells are thicker all of which lets pressure build in waterfowl eggs while the gas tends to excape from chicken eggs.