My bator stinks??? I am so sad please please hatchers your idea's

[hsm5grls]

I had one poor egg survive shipping, I put it in the bator last Thursday, It has been running real good humidity, temps all has been good, but there is a real smelly liquid in the egg carton that is holding the egg I thought maybe it was the yoke that got on the egg from the broken eggs it was shipped with. I wiped most of it off but didn't want to wash the egg. We candled this morning just to take a peek and we saw a dark area around the wider part of the egg is that an air sack or is my egg a gonner? This is a red frizzle egg.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

You need to get rid of the egg...its bad and seeping...you will really have a Big mess if you don't...it is NOT going to develop..Sorry...

Edited to add...it has had a hairline crack in it that you have not noticed is why it stinks...

Try again when you get some really good eggs from someone else...This happens so don't feel bad....

 

[silkiechicken]

The air sac should be clear when you look though it, kind of like you see an air pocket. At a 5 days old, unless you have a real good light, you should see a small black dot which is the embryo's eye. Stink is not really a good sign... You did take the egg out of the carton and throw the carton right? So you are saying the egg stinks?

Here is an egg at 6 days old:

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Make sure from Silkies pics of candling but I'm thinking a funky smell means no good egg....

 

[homecatmom]

Silkiechicken, your pictures are worth a thousand words!

 

[hsm5grls]

we cracked it open and IT STUNK BAD!! But there was a lttle development did I just kill it? The baby in there was about the size of a dime maybe a little smaller. Any ideas It was surrounded by a white milky looking stuff and like I said it stunk.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

You didn't kill it....It may have started growth and then died ...thats why its smelling.....its had a hairline crack that you couldn't detect...

 

[speckledhen]

You did not kill it. It had already deceased and was beginning to decay-that's why it smelled bad.

 

[hsm5grls]

I didn't think I would be soo sad. You know you start out and they are "just chickens" but then you start loving the ones you have and i keep thinking what a pretty baby it would have been. I am crying and i don't do that often. I am just so disappointed

 

[speckledhen]

We all have those false starts when we start hatching. You do it again and it'll go better.