Leave unfertile eggs in incubator?

[kathyinmo]

I cleaned out part of my old side of my chicken coop that has been sealed off for over a year and found a few eggs buried so I poked one with a shovel and it made a "pop" noise like a small fire work (smell was really bad), so I'm thinking maybe something has too hit the eggs to cause them to explode, because if it had pressure in it for that amount of time and didn't go off the incubator eggs might stand a good chance of not exploding.

Speaking from experience here...... they CAN explode. No, it does not take something to hit the eggs. I have had a rotten egg explode in my incubator. Believe me, you don't want that to happen.

 

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it was just a theory... i did remove all unfertile eggs from my incubator this morning. found a very smelly egg last night in my incubator so i removed it, looks like it stopped developing a day or two ago, is it rotten or do they smell when they die?

 

[MA Mama]

It must have to do with bacterial infestation or not. I opened 14 clear eggs just to check it out (my first hatch, I'm curious)and not one of them smelled. They looked exactly like a supermarket egg, actually.

 

[notinoz2007]

I remove my non-fertiles and early quitters after day 5-7. Then I cracked open each egg into a coffee mug, stir 'em with a fork and maybe ad bit of shredded chesse, add the crushed up shells and microwave til done. Toss it out the back door and watch them games begin!

glad to know that this is possible. i was thinking i would scramble them up for my current chicks but wasnt sure if i should. now i will. thanks.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Eggs that are infertile an eggs that have quit growing do not go bad at a higher rated than eggs that are growing. Removing them is not necessary. The only eggs that you need to remove are the ones that start to smell. That could be infertiles or growing eggs.

If you set 100 eggs an 50 are duds you can remove the duds an cut the exploding egg odds in half. But if you removed the good eggs an left the duds you would also cut your exploding egg odds in half. Not that anyone would.

So if you had set those 100 eggs an all were growing you would not remove 50 just to lower the odds of a egg going bad.

So there is nothing wrong with removing the duds an quitters but there is also nothing wrong with leaving them in. The main thing is to smell the vents on the incubator every day an hunt an remove any smelly egg that crops up, growing or not.

 

[CherryChick1]

If you find that you have a smelly egg in the incubator, when you remove it, would you also add a little disinfectant to the humidifying water? If so, what would you use and how much would you use?