Is it bad if my Cortex Quails went over the hatching date?

[JetCat]

got any babies yet?

my daughter just took 138 out of the hatcher while i was pulling 372 eggs out of the incubator to go back into the hatcher while we still have 90 left from the Valentine's Day hatch in the battery brooder, might need to have a big sale soon!!!

 

[Meg02]

Wow! And no not any yet 2 more days til' their due date then probably a few days after that they'll hatch I found out the turkey egg in my other incubator was dead? I don't know if you know anything about that I picked it up on one side and I felt a rock like thing fall against the other side, I think it was rotten...

 

[JetCat]

Wow! And no not any yet 2 more days til' their due date then probably a few days after that they'll hatch I found out the turkey egg in my other incubator was dead? I don't know if you know anything about that I picked it up on one side and I felt a rock like thing fall against the other side, I think it was rotten...

if it's rotton you can smell it, at least once a day i sniff the vents on my incubators, if there's a rotton egg you'll know it as soon as you sniff the vent, then they are pretty easy to find once you open it. never had a bad egg explode on me this way in over 40 yrs of hatching. i can't say about your turkey egg but i'd of gave it a sniff before tossing it out.

 

[Meg02]

Yeah it was just double yolk I don't think it was a turkey egg we checked this morning and it wasn't rotten My eggs are doing well but is it okay if they don't make any sound? One more day!

 

[Meg02]

I found out if the skin is brown for the egg once they pip that they are stuck and sadly they were both stuck in the shell (the other ones I tried) I didn't know that until yesterday

 

[JetCat]

....... My eggs are doing well but is it okay if they don't make any sound?

they won't make any sound till they internally pip other then some slight tapping, after they pip the internal membrane they can start to chirp, but not always.

 

[Meg02]

Thanks!

 

[contactvidura]

Based on my experience it takes 16 to 19 days... after 19 days you can take one egg out and do a float test. Usually if its bad it will float...

 

[JetCat]

I wouldn't recommend that as any egg at the end of its incubation period will float so you'd be tossing out every one of them even ones with live chicks in them. It's also a bad idea to float any egg that you haven't confirmed had no internal pip as you can drown the chick.

 

[contactvidura]

I wouldn't recommend that as any egg at the end of its incubation period will float so you'd be tossing out every one of them even ones with live chicks in them. It's also a bad idea to float any egg that you haven't confirmed had no internal pip as you can drown the chick.

Thanks for this information. What is the method you use to check if its a bad egg at the end of incubation.?