stinky incubator???

[bearfeet3]

Sorry second post, no one answered in the incubation forum, but I opened up my incubator today and it smelled a little. My goose egg smelled fine (day 12) but the incubator had a weird smell to it. Is this normal or should I try cleaning it with vinegar. I have an rcom mini 3 egg incubator by the way so it has a plastic exterior and the only way to do a thorough cleaning would be taking it apart...

 

[Wifezilla]

Is one of your eggs bad?

 

[bearfeet3]

I only have one in there right now(the other turned out to have a blood spot so i threw it.) I opened it to spray and cool the egg and I got this whiff of somthing. I pulled the egg out and it didnt really smell, it's the actual incubator that kind of stinks. Its not horrid or anything, but it's noticable.

 

[Duck Keeper]

Blood spots don't mean anything! You probably threw out a life...

Blood spots happen when the egg is forming inside the hen (duck, goose, chicken ect) and a capillary breaks. There's nothing wrong with it, it just means that a minor error occurred. If it was fertile, it still (probably) would have hatched.

 

[bearfeet3]

It was day 9 and all it contained was a round black speck...

 

[Duck Keeper]

Okay then.

I'm new to this, so I was thinking it was early on.

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Does it smell plastic-y?

 

[bearfeet3]

No it has a weird light fishy smell...It smells kind of like goose poop. I dont know how to explain lol.. Is it normal to have any smell to the incubator. Thats really what I'm wondering. I havnt incubated anything in a couple years so I mustve forgot. I just hope I dont have bacteria growing in there...

 

[Duck Keeper]

I've never incubated anything in my life, but in my limited research-based experience, I'd have to say that any weird smells are bad. o_o;

 

[bearfeet3]

uh oh...i think i'll clean it tommorrow then

 

[Webfoot]

Every time that's happened to me, I've had a "stinker". Sometimes it takes a while before you can identify the egg by sniffing. Don't know why the incubator stinks before the egg does--one of life's little mysteries.

Webfoot