Smelly eggs

[Burd]

You'll want to open the egg to see if it developed at all or at what stage it failed.

Ok - at what stage should it be at this point (Day 17)? Sorry for all the queries!

 

[Pyxis]

If you want to try blowing them out instead, if they didn't develop and you soak them in a 10% bleach solution to get the smell out, you might be able to sell the shells to crafters. You could recoup some money that way. I've seen blown shells selling for $25 each.

That way, you can tell if they developed or not, if that's something you want to know, and still maybe get some money out of them.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Ok - at what stage should it be at this point (Day 17)? Sorry for all the queries!

They wouldn't be very far along but you would see development.
Try asking on the emu hatch-a-long thread.

 

[Burd]

Thanks for the replies and help guys. Looks like it was infertile but it definitely was bad I think, though I've dont know what it should look like etc. for absolutely sure.

The bright side is the other suspected egg from the first post smells a lot less than it did earlier so I'm almost certain it was just the other egg stinking its neighbour up.

Thanks once again all, I'll have to try and post a bit more and learn more around here, your education has been amazing in this, thank you (for the final time!)