Sap Like Substance coming from egg

[Equine_Angel]

I am incubating a couple of eggs and I have noticed that one of the eggs is seeping amber coloured fluid from the shell. Is this a rotten egg? Should I be taking it out?

 

[shellybean40]

yes, before it explodes and ruins your hatch

 

[ranchhand]

Yep, and be VERY gentle with that egg. They explode sometimes. I take a small plastic bag, invert it over my hand, and use that to get it out and close the bag asap.

 

[Equine_Angel]

CRISIS DIVERTED!!!! Thanks for the quick response! It smelled horrible.

Just an hour ago I had to help a chick out of an egg and now it is resting in the bator....imagine if that exploded??!!! PHEW!!

THANKS for the help!

 

[ranchhand]

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Good!

And yeah, it's a smell you'll never forget. These days, when I incubate? I sniff the bator daily and I also inspect each egg for any leakage, using a flashlight to look through the window.

Congratulations on the chick!

 

[Equine_Angel]

I understand and know the smell all to well. I had a broody hen that had two eggs explode underneath her. The whole barn WREAKED!!!!!! Thank goodness for pine bedding and DE!