Hi,
In another post I was able to announce that my computer was incubating my discarded eggs.
I have candled them to the best of my ability, and all the remaining ones are quite dark. but the hens were getting off and laying every which where, and I was moving eggs from a scatty bird to a sitter, so although I scribed approximate dates on the shells it's mostly guess work.
I found 3 of the clutch were infertile, and I had one that cracked and was definitely not good.
I have been using a polystyrene egg box as the top insulator to keep any droughts off, and when the bad egg was there even before it cracked I was picking up a bad egg whiff off the polystyrene even though I couldn't make up my mind which egg it was by sniffing them individually.
I now have about 5 eggs left from the original batch which I am not sure about I guesstimated they were laid on or around the 20th of June. I don't want to terminate if there is hope. Shall I just rely on the polystyrene clue, or do some eggs not leak fumes until they explode.
Cheers
In another post I was able to announce that my computer was incubating my discarded eggs.
I have candled them to the best of my ability, and all the remaining ones are quite dark. but the hens were getting off and laying every which where, and I was moving eggs from a scatty bird to a sitter, so although I scribed approximate dates on the shells it's mostly guess work.
I found 3 of the clutch were infertile, and I had one that cracked and was definitely not good.
I have been using a polystyrene egg box as the top insulator to keep any droughts off, and when the bad egg was there even before it cracked I was picking up a bad egg whiff off the polystyrene even though I couldn't make up my mind which egg it was by sniffing them individually.
I now have about 5 eggs left from the original batch which I am not sure about I guesstimated they were laid on or around the 20th of June. I don't want to terminate if there is hope. Shall I just rely on the polystyrene clue, or do some eggs not leak fumes until they explode.
Cheers
