Rotten Eggs in Bator on Day 5

[vanalpaca]

Isn't this too soon for rotten eggs?

I put eggs from 2 different breeders in my 'bator on Monday evening. 2 dozen had travelled 5 days and 1 dozen had travelled 2 days. I got both sets at 8:30 am at the Post office on Monday a.m. and after 12 hours of settling, they went into the 'bator.

Could this be too high of humidity, something I did wrong, the length of shipping time, or would it be old eggs shipped or I have heard that sometimes a hen would lay a 'stinky' egg, but nothing smelled bad before going into the incubator.

One egg did crack in the bator and was oozing green slime and black goo so it was ROTTEN.

We were trying to wait 10 days to candle them because they were dark eggs. Would hate to lose the whole 4 racks of eggs because of these.

Think the rest of them will be ok? It's only day 5.

Thanks for any help/advice on this hatch.

 

[llaaadyel]

you don't know how old the eggs actually are because they were shipped. You also don't know under what conditions they were kept before they shipped. Yes, hens sometimes lay a stink egg. You also don't know the conditions the box were in during shipping. Bottom line is, if you think an egg is bad, it is better to get rid of it then to leave it in the incubator. If it explodes, it will contaminate the entire incubator.

 

[vanalpaca]

They are REMOVED, but being held so I can see which ones they are and keep a tally to see if they all come from the same shipped batch or not.

If from BOTH batches, then maybe it is something I did, like humidity too high or something. This is my friends incubator and I didn't see a hygrometer. Has a sponge for adding the water to. There are other eggs in there as well, so there is a lot of additions/variety of times on when they were added. But these were MY eggs and I know when they went in.

Don't you just hate it when you are sharing an incubator and one group of eggs goes stinky!

Oh yeah, we take out the clear ones, the cracked ones, she can tell the DEAD ones before they start smelling, but it's been a long time since she had a STINKY one! Of course it would be MINE.

Thanks,
Bon

 

[al6517]

I hatch Hundreds of eggs all the time from my own closed flock and have never ever had an egg go bad. WTS I have hatched shipped egg's from folks I didn't know and have had many problems exploding stinky nasty bad old egg's being one. I think your only choice is to consider that the breeder who shipped your egg's just plain shipped you some bad egg's. Whether it was by mistake or it was a common regular practice of them to add a few bad/old stinky eggs just to fill your order is anybody's guess, but I wouldn't question the incubator.

AL

 

[pascopol]

Quote:
"hens sometimes lay a stink egg"???

I take an issue with this statement.

I've been eating fresh eggs from laying hens last 50 years and not one was "stinking" on my fry pan.


Neglegient and irresponsible people sell and ship old eggs and then perhaps blame hens for laying "stinking eggs"


LOL

 

[al6517]

Quote:
"hens sometimes lay a stink egg"???

I take an issue with this statement.

I've been eating fresh eggs from laying hens last 50 years and not one was "stinking" on my fry pan.


Neglegient and irresponsible people sell and ship old eggs and then perhaps blame hens for laying "stinking eggs"


LOL

LOL very well said and true to boot, I fear nobody can repute this statement. She just got eggs from to bad sources that's all.

AL

 

[vanalpaca]

Oh my, I guess I really am naive and have way too much faith in my fellow man.......and it doesn't look like I'm going to grow out of it......

So how FRESH should an egg be that is SHIPPED? Priority CAN take 5 days and not the 2-3 days, plus the temps probably vary between 40-80 degrees during shipping AND I did read where any time the egg is at a temperature of 72 degrees, it starts its growing process.

It makes sense to drive hundreds of miles for alpacas when they cost several thousand dollars each, now that they are cheaper, driving THAT far doesn't make sense.

But driving hundreds of miles for chickens.........

We don't even have vets for chickens........never heard of a poultry vet............

But I do like raising chickens, so how do we get GOOD hatching eggs?

 

[heathersboers]

Most sellers will ship fresh eggs. I have had only one batch shipped to me bad. I bought 36 duck eggs from someone here on byc ...7 were rotton when I got them and within the first 3 days...I threw out another dozen due to the rotting smell..4 exploded phew!!!.needless to say. I have 3 left. The rest were infertile or stinky...I don't know how long it takes for an egg to smell rotton..... but most sellers ship fresh eggs. Don't let one bad experience ruin it...I also have never had a fresh "stink egg" laid......