?? re: stinky eggs in bator--why some quitters & not others stink?

[haTHOR]

i have removed 2 smelly eggs from the incubator. one a few days ago, one today.

i have removed other eggs that were quitters that did not stink.

do ALL eggs that quit become stinky eventually, and perhaps i just caught the non-smelly ones faste, before they started to smell?

two stinkers were shipped to me and both were blue eggs, so VERY hard to see into. i candled and saw life in one on may 2 however, and it was smelly today. the chick was developed past may 2 stage (development was around 12 days, so about may 4 death).

other quitters that did not smell had similar growth and development, meaning they died around the same time...but did not stink at all when i opened them yesterday.

why some and not others stink?

 

[TheFarmMama]

Sorry you lost some eggs. Whenever I've had early quitters my eggs have never smelled. From what I've heard, if the eggs smell like that they are actually spoiled-as in bacteria, poor storage, etc prior to incubation. I could be wrong though. Hopefully someone else has better insight for you.

 

[bel]

Probably just in there longer than others and bacteria got in, or it was a blood ring where bacteria formed and they started to stink.
The other day I pulled a goose egg out that smelled like rotting fish, it was an iffy egg I left in just in case not sure if it quit, and eventually it started to stink.

 

[popcornpuppy]

There are many types of bacteria. Bacteria can cause eggs to quit. Different types of bacteria can cause the stink. Some of the eggs that quit could have one type of bacteria, and the stinky eggs may have had another.