The only eggs that have become stinky were ones that were shipped. I had local pickup eggs that were up to 20 days old and they did not stink. Bacteria gets into the eggs if they have poop on them and they are cracked.
I hope so too. Bubbles was a "special" gosling, all of her hatch mates seizured and died within the first week, she had seizures too but survived. The seizures, however, left her a bit on the retarded side and unable to vocalize, but I did not have the heart to cull her. She was super friendly and never wanted us to leave her. I hope she bunkered down during last nights storm, there was no way she could get out of her pen unless something took her from air, but she was in the pen with a grown duck and a pot belly pig. ( they all sleep in one big pile)
Once in class, I added warm water to bump the humidity and set the eggs up for hatching. I was a bit surprised to hear one egg peeping because they were due to hatch Wednesday. None of the remaining 11 eggs are pipped, but looked normal when I candled early Monday morning. I'm also happy the bator held it's temp because the school's heat is turned off at night. 
The chart I am using says today is lockdown. Skyline, the Breeder that sold me the eggs says they hatch a day early too, so my eggs on in lockdown.
If your egg paper egg cartons are getting soggy, then something is wrong with the setup. Mine don't soggy. Also, you don't have to put them straight up. If you cut the carton down correctly, you can tilt them. You can even tilt the cartons:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/avhs-chickens
Here is a picture of mine at lockdown:
Each egg is set with the biggest part of the egg cell at the top. I was able to do this with the Dorking eggs and each one pipped exactly at the center of the air cell. These were shipped, so the air cell is not as perfect in some of them.
From candling this morning, 12 of the 13 here look good. One is iffy but I am giving it a shot.
I took my bator with 12 eggs in to my son's kindergarten class on Monday. It went pretty smoothly. I took the eggs out of the turner and put them in a carton for the trip...about 6 miles to the school and plugged the bator in to a converter in the car's cigarette lighter. Temp held steady at 99-100
When everyone got to class this morning the early peeper was hatching! It was great timing and all the kids got to see itThe rest of the eggs hatch without problems.
Trisha
Quote: I candle to find the aircell and tilt them up by the big end, so that the big curve of the oval is lower than the little curve at the back. With the shipped eggs it is harder to tell where this is. With the locally picked up Dorking eggs it was easy. It was neat seeing all 11 eggs with a Pip exactly in the center. All 11 hatched too
