This post here is sort of a run-on from the one above. I've been thinking way too much about eggs...
When/if you all have a hatch in which a certain number of eggs hatch in the expected time, how long do you wait before you remove the other eggs? When you candle them, give some taps and see if it moves - also, listen closely and see if you hear anything.
IF the situation (mine is from being an amateur but it could also be the darkness of the shells for other cases) is one where you can't tell much by candling, what do you all do? I mean do you discard and all done? Do you open the egg to see what may have happened? In such cases, do you open it at the air sack? If I have to open an egg that I think may have quit, I poke a small hole in the airsack, just above where I thought it would have pipped, then I listen very carefully. if I don't hear anything, or feel any movement, I gradually make the hole larger until I know for certain the state of the embryo.
What (the simple and the gross) have people found inside? Usually embryos that stopped developing before hatch dates, yolk still attached. Sometimes malpositioned chicks or chicks with deformities. I always open every one that quits, because it helps me try to figure out what went wrong. Usually with shipped eggs, I will see very badly formed air sacks or malpos.
*I once had a bad egg ferment and cracking it caused the egg to explode violently spewing disgusting smelling goo all over my legs. Is that simply a timing thing? or caused by some sort of bacteria getting in? Infertile eggs are usually the main explosion culprit, but any types of cracks can also allow bacteria to get in and grow.
I believe those are my left over questions though as you can guess, I'll probably come up with a few more before the month is over.
The olive egg that's still in the nest was set on either a Friday night or Saturday morning. This past weekend made it 21 days and over.
Is there any harm done to open in--Outside the nest of course.
See? There was already another question...
And, despite saying I wasn't going to do this, I did add in the 2 remaining olive eggs. They were destined for the nature-recycle anyway as they'd been laid 2-12 and 2-14. It was a crazy reaction to the sadness of the chick that died yesterday in the shelll. Of Course Mima knows they're added. She's giving me dirty looks! How can one egg be cold like it came from inside and another right next to the cold one be warm to hot? That's so strange!
