Help Stop The Exploding Egg Before It Happens!!!

[mrslb333]

Usually if they're quitters the veins disappear I would think your's have babies in

 

[pkw]

Don't worry. I candled my eggs on day 10 and some I could actually see a baby and others I saw shadows moving or even just the veins moving around so I know there are live babies in there and I candled again yesterday and there are definitely babies in my eggs. Today is lockdown so I am patiently waiting for my adorable little fuzzy butts.

 

[TACEYPERKINS]

Hi- odds are the one that explodded was an old one. I wouldn't put them in water either, it might make them go bad. I would smell them, then leave them alone till day 10. By then you will be able to tell which ones are good and which ones arn't. Take all out that have no activity and no veins. The key is to only check your eggs when you have to. And yes, your nose is the best tool to use when checking for bad eggs. Good luck!

 

[gumbii]

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An egg can still rot if there is no development. Leave an unfertile grocery store egg with no veins out on the counter...you will have a mess on your hands eventually. If bacteria permeates the shell, the proteins inside an egg is like a goldmine for them, they reproduce, and eventually the egg will explode from the buildup of bacteria by products.

that's why i said infertile eggs too... the one that i took out of my bator last night looks like a ticking time bomb... it's green in the inside... i could see it with my candler... i'm scared to go into my room too...


oh, btw... i'm on day 15... i usually candle at day 10, but decided to wait until lock down... well, until the egg popping thread..

 

[Lacrystol]

WOW, thank you all for the advice, I will keep them all in there until the 10th day, I did candel them tonight and the 3 WOW they are sooooooo activite, but the other 9 are looking better, it was extremely hard to see them but out of the 9 there was only 3 that I could not tell if there was life. But 9 are moving which is better then 3 and 3 are still being difficult. So Will see what happens on the 10th day hopefully all of them will be successfull, I had to already distroyed 4 of them because they were not fertiled at all. So that is why I was concerned about these guys.. Thanks for all the information..

 

[Coldweatherbirds]

I'm scared of the popping egg too. The problem is that I have 34 eggs of varying colors in my bator. There is no way I could candle all of them without significantly cooling them down. Even sniffing each one individually will be difficult to do quickly, but that is my plan for day 7. Then every few days after that. Right now (day 2) I'm not opening my bator at all, letting the turner do it's work and adding water with a syringe and straw. The giant incubators... how do they do it? I've seen incubators on ebay that hold thousands of eggs. They can't all be fertile and hatch. Not all failures pop. I'll cross my fingers and hope that I'm going to be lucky.

 

[gumbii]

i don't stress about them cooling down... it took me like 10 minutes to candle my 50 eggs last night... no biggie really...

 

[Minniechickmama]

gumbii, If you have a rotten one and you know it and are afraid of it going POW, get a ziploc bag and turn it inside out to pick up the egg and zip it inside to get it out and in the trash or wherever you put them rotten ones. If it explodes, then it is contained.

Lacrystol, you can, and I have heard that you should, open the incubator at least once a day to let it cool a bit. I do while I turn or candled and add water. Some people even recommend misting the eggs at this time too to help keep the moisture up after opening. When a hen goes broody, up until the last couple of days (what us pseudo-hens call 'lock down'), she may get off the next to eat and drink, so even she is letting the nest air out and cool a bit. You don't want to go leaving it open for a half an hour, but 5-10 minutes isn't going to destroy your hatch.

Also, some of those little embryos that you see the veining but not the little feathered seahorse may have them right in the middle of the egg and you can't see it well because it is also being masked by the air sac. I would smell them, and leave them as long as they are not stinky. If they don't darken up by day 15 or so, pitch them or leave them to help as heat sinks. Just my two cents.

Good luck.

By the way, I did have one explode in a big batch I did for our county fair last year. I didn't think about sniffing them before taking them down and I ended up ruining about 30-40 eggs because I didn't take the time to smell the ova

My Hovabator still smells a bit funky even though I scrubbed it and disinfected it.

 

[Lacrystol]

Wow thank you for the information, I did my smelling and right now nothing smells. I still have 3 of them that I was not able to see movement so I will wait a little bit longer and keep smelling them. I just can't get over how my Lavender egg has soooo much movement and then we come to others where you can't see nothing. I do open my incubator about three times a day. Once in the morning for turning, once in the evening for turning and once more to candel them of course I don't candel them everyday so some days it only gets opened twice. I have never had a problem with hatching eggs because of this. My batch last year, every single egg hatched, so I don't worry about the cooling down thing because I know once they get back in or when I close it up everything raises back to normal in about 5 minutes or soo.

can't wait to hear that 1st peeping..

 

[Lacrystol]

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Here's a status update, I have 3 eggs left with no movement we are on the 8th day, two of them have veins, the last one had absolutely nothing going on, so I took him out and cracked him, It looks like it started to form but quit on me. There was no actually baby, just a tiny spot of blood and little veins kind of looked like it was on day 2. The spot was no bigger then a tip of a pen, the yolk was very watery and light yellow. So now we are down to 11 eggs in the bator, I will keep an egg on the two eggs that I can't see movement too.