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do you know what day they start to smell bad? mine is on the 9th day and I dont smell anything yet
It all depends on how old the eggs are and how they've been treated. I order a lot of eggs by mail and have had them show up oily and sweating / oozing. If it's a good batch of eggs you don't need to worry. You also don't want to keep eggs around that started to take and the embryo died. The dead chick starts to decay and gas build up until the egg explodes. I've never had this happen during a normal 21 day incubation period. I have had it happen when I lost track of eggs under my broody hens, and stumbled across them when cleaning out hen houses. What a smelly mess!!
You can candle an egg after three days of incubation and tell if they are fertile. I wait seven days because I breed Jersey Giants and Marans. Brown eggs are harder to candle. White eggs can be candled after three days.
do you know what day they start to smell bad? mine is on the 9th day and I dont smell anything yet
It all depends on how old the eggs are and how they've been treated. I order a lot of eggs by mail and have had them show up oily and sweating / oozing. If it's a good batch of eggs you don't need to worry. You also don't want to keep eggs around that started to take and the embryo died. The dead chick starts to decay and gas build up until the egg explodes. I've never had this happen during a normal 21 day incubation period. I have had it happen when I lost track of eggs under my broody hens, and stumbled across them when cleaning out hen houses. What a smelly mess!!
You can candle an egg after three days of incubation and tell if they are fertile. I wait seven days because I breed Jersey Giants and Marans. Brown eggs are harder to candle. White eggs can be candled after three days.
