Is this pic a rotten egg?

[luv geese]

Hello all
Is this picture show a rotten egg? I took it from a broody duck so I’m not sure when it’s do exactly but thereare
Nine eggs and something smells I can’t tell from candling. The dark is inside the egg. Also if when candling you can see the air cell and the rest is dark but no movement, does that mean bad egg or what?
Thanks so much!
Shannon

 

[MGG]

Hello all
Is this picture show a rotten egg? I took it from a broody duck so I’m not sure when it’s do exactly but thereare
Nine eggs and something smells I can’t tell from candling. The dark is inside the egg. Also if when candling you can see the air cell and the rest is dark but no movement, does that mean bad egg or what?
Thanks so much!
Shannon

Yeah, that looks bad. Can you get a candling pic? Any veins?

 

[luv geese]

No veins. Solid dark except for the air cell.

 

[MGG]

No veins. Solid dark except for the air cell.

It's probably a goner then. Sorry.
Happy Independence Day!

 

[NorCalChicks101]

that looks like a organic firecracker waiting to happen. toss it.

 

[luv geese]

Thank you everyone! I have tossed them!

 

[Coffeebean1947]

For future reference, I had an egg like that. Threw it in the trash and when it broke it had a live ready to hatch baby inside which quickly died Since then, I either take outside or put in a baggie and carefully open the air sack end of the egg to check for movement through the membrane.

 

[luv geese]

No! Don’t tell me that!!!
Awwww! I’ve already tossed them like days ago
Frankly I can be a little squeamish about this so I really didn’t want to open them up and look At them.
The first time I saw an egg incubated in class about the third grade I didn’t eat eggs for about 20 years!
I am about there now because of all the candling-it’s hard to eat one
So if I saw that I’d prob be off eggs for another 20 years!hahaha
Anyway, I know.....it’s silly......don’t be salty! Doin the best I can here.
I got ducks for the eggs never wanted or intended to be incubating eggs but here I am trying to make them live-
I had two gosling babies born naturally and raised by their momma that got pecked to death by something
So I didn’t trust to let it happen naturally. But I would have MUCH preferred it!
Thanks for all the help!

 

[Coffeebean1947]

Hatching eggs is hard on the heart and nerves. All you can do is take notes for next time. I've had a few egg I've tossed because they looked so bad when I candled that I didn't have the nerve to check. I do try to eggtopsy most of them and if there is movement when I make a hole into the air pocket, they go back into the incubator.

 

[luv geese]

Hatching eggs is hard on the heart and nerves. All you can do is take notes for next time. I've had a few egg I've tossed because they looked so bad when I candled that I didn't have the nerve to check. I do try to eggtopsy most of them and if there is movement when I make a hole into the air pocket, they go back into the incubator.

Ok so I took 16 eggs from two broody ducks .... I wasn’t sure when they were supposed to hatch but I thought it was near. I would have let them go natural but I found a dead one in the nest so I had ordered an incubator just in case. Literally the next day one started to pip. Now I have 10 hatched, I threw out 3 and I have three that were very early on just past a heartbeat or somewhere thereabouts.So I don’t really know when they are supposed to hatch.
My problem is that the incubator did well in the beginning. I had a back up humidity/ therm inside. Initially they were pretty close in readings - now the temp is within a half degree usually but they humidity can be as much as 15% difference between the incubator one and the back up one inside. So I candled them a few days ago and I could see movement in two but the third was solid and I can’t see anything but the air cell. I just candled them tonight and I see no movement in any of them. The humidity swings wildly even tho I check it atleast 5x a day or more. I’ll check it and it will be at 70 two hours later it’s at 49- I’ll add a tiny bit of water and it’s at 85! Any ideas? Besides never ever doing this again because it’s toooo stressful!!?