How common is this....

[TattooQ27]

After letting our shipped chicken eggs rest for 2 days, we set them in the incubator on Saturday at 9pm. When I got up at 9am Sunday there was a funky smell coming from the incubator. I quickly candled all of my duck eggs, thinking one of them might have gone bad but they are doing super so I shut the incubator and went about my day. At 9pm last night the icky smell caused curiosity to overtake me and I decided to candle the chicken eggs to look for anything rotten. After candling and smelling most of the eggs, we found the egg that had gone bad. We removed it and shut the incubator again but I was still hesitant to walk away because I know a rotten egg can hurt my developing duckies and the smell coming from the incubator was still strong after removing the bad egg. We decided to open a few more of the eggs and found that 3 of the 12 had gone rotten....foamy yolk and super stinky...in the first 24 (less really) hours after they were set.

So what I am wondering is, how common it is for them to go rotten so soon after being set? If it is common, is it due to improper handling during shipping or does it have more to do with the care the eggs got prior to shipping? I know when I got them some were dirty (as in looked like they were plucked from a manure pile) and they smelled bad but it wasn't the dirty looking ones that went rotten.

 

[asher]

It could be bacteria seeped in. Could be they got slightly frozen and bacteria seeped in the cracks. Could be any number of things.

It's a great thing you found them so soon. Trust me. That is a smell like no other, eh?

 

[The Sheriff]

It sounds to me like you were sent old eggs. Sorry.

 

[cracking up]

I agree with the Warden, eggs just don't go bad that quickly.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

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