Oozing egg at Day 14

[Anndan]

Hey everyone!

I'm hatching some Ameraucana and FBCM eggs.. Out of 15 Ameraucanas only 4 have made it so far, out of 18 Marans only 2 have made it.. It has definitely been a rough first time incubating. =((

Anyways.. I went to candle the eggs tonight and one of my marans eggs was stuck to the turner and had some light brown liquid oozing out of it. I was finally able to get it out and candled it and it seems there is still a baby moving in there, but it might just be floating around from me not having the steadiest of hands. Should I throw the egg away?

Also, what is generally the hatch rates on shipped eggs? I am using a hovabator genesis 1588.. Around 100 degrees and 45%-55% humidity. The marans eggs were not packaged well and 4 were cracked and all over the place on arrival, the ameraucana eggs were shipped really nicely. So I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. Any help would be great!

Thanks everyone. =)

 

[QueenMisha]

Yeah, it's cracked. I've tried to repair cracked eggs with candle wax in the past, but once they start oozing I toss 'em. The movement you're seeing is probably just internal bits of the egg floating around, they sometimes detach when the egg dies.

I've only ever purchased shipped eggs twice, so my experience is limited. The first consisted of 7 eggs; 3 hatched and grew well. Not bad. The other was 2 dozen eggs; just 2 hatched, and one of them promptly died.

The average for shipped eggs is supposed be around 50%, but this varies greatly.