In lockdown and got a stinker

[bluegrasslady]

So I am on second day of lockdown, went to rewet my sponge and there is a not so wholesome smell. I don't know which egg has gone bad..... Am I going to ruin the viable chicks by inspecting eggs at this point? I know that they move into hatch position during the last three days.

 

[Ridgerunner]

In an ideal situation you don’t open the incubator during lockdown because it is possible, not absolutely sure and in many cases not that likely, but possible you might shrink wrap a pipped egg. However, I don’t always live in an “ideal” world. I live in the world “I deal” with. So do you.

Get that bad egg out of there. A sniff test should tell you which one it is. The risk of shrink wrapping a pipped egg is much less than the danger of that egg exploding or just stinking up everything.

 

[cmfarm]

I second what Ridgerunner said. If you leave that egg in and it explodes worse things would happen.

 

[bluegrasslady]

I found it. Hopefully I haven't shrink wrapped anybody

 

[gimmie birdies]

you are probably fine. some people dry hatch their eggs and everything comes out great.