~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[SilkieSensation]

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If it was smooth to start with & is now rough then it is seeping through the pores. It will get little crusty dots on it that will scrape off if you try. I would candle & sniff, then toss.

 

[JennaLynn122]

If it was smooth to start with & is now rough then it is seeping through the pores. It will get little crusty dots on it that will scrape off if you try. I would candle & sniff, then toss.

I candled and sniffed last night (that sounds so strange) and no stink and a jerky little chick in there.. I'm so torn on what to do. I don't want to toss one that has a chance but I don't want to compromise 59 other eggs either

Its almost like its desintigrating... like old weathered concrete

 

[HEChicken]

I candled and sniffed last night (that sounds so strange) and no stink and a jerky little chick in there.. I'm so torn on what to do. I don't want to toss one that has a chance but I don't want to compromise 59 other eggs either

Its almost like its desintigrating... like old weathered concrete

The shells get thinner throughout incubation - perhaps this one was a little too thin to begin with, so is disintegrating faster than usual. Was it a very porous egg when you started?

If it has a live chick, I'd leave it - its not going to explode if it has a chick in it - explosions only occur when there is no chick and the egg has instead filled with bacteria. However be sure it really IS a chick that is moving around. The contents of the egg will move as you move it around candling it and might fool you into thinking you're seeing a chick move when in fact it is a bacterial "mass" moving as you turn the egg.

 

[JennaLynn122]

The shells get thinner throughout incubation - perhaps this one was a little too thin to begin with, so is disintegrating faster than usual.  Was it a very porous egg when you started?

If it has a live chick, I'd leave it - its not going to explode if it has a chick in it - explosions only occur when there is no chick and the egg has instead filled with bacteria.  However be sure it really IS a chick that is moving around.  The contents of the egg will move as you move it around candling it and might fool you into thinking you're seeing a chick move when in fact it is a bacterial "mass" moving as you turn the egg.

maybe. I'll take a look again. Tonight without moving to make sure its not me moving it and tricking myself. This is only my second hatch so a lot of this, I've never had to deal with. I don't think it was porous when I put it in, I usually leave the porous ones in the eating basket but could have been a mixup there somewhere. A few porous ones got in there so I probably sorted them wrong one day.

 

[Arielle]

My 2 cents on exploding eggs-- weeping eggs are releasing the pressure so not as likely to explode. I get the bombs when I am burrying the whole eggs that did not hatch--- yukkkkeeeeeeee Rare, but memorable.

 

[JennaLynn122]

My 2 cents on exploding eggs-- weeping eggs are releasing the pressure so not as likely to explode. I get the bombs when I am burrying the whole eggs that did not hatch--- yukkkkeeeeeeee  Rare, but memorable. 

ewwwww.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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Definitely candle again. If you don't see definite veining & a dancing baby (after holding the egg completely still for at least 5 seconds) then it needs to go. I would put it as far from the rest of the eggs as possible even after that & keep an eye on it.

 

[Arielle]

That's what my kids say!!

 

[HEChicken]

I have a bunch of broody chickens in nest boxes, and several broody turkeys on nests on the floor. Last night I tucked a couple of chicks under one of the broody hens, in an attempt to break her broody by switching her to mother mode. My thought was to tuck them under until she switched to clucking like a mother, and then move her and the chicks to a broody pen for a few days to bond before letting them back in with the rest of the flock. I tried moving this hen as a broody and nothing doing. So, I tucked the two chicks under her, and sat and watched for about 30 minutes. All was calm - she wasn't trying to kill them - although she also hadn't started clucking to them either. I got called away for an hour but went back to check on them at dusk. Reaching under her….no chicks. In the nest box next to her, is another proven broody so my first thought was to check under her to see if she had stolen the chicks. Sure enough, I immediately encountered a chick under her wing. So I picked her up and moved her to the broody pen, but realized she only had one chick. By now it was getting dark so I had to go and get a flashlight to try and find the second chick. I looked everywhere. No chick. No dead body either though. Looked under every broody hen in every nest box. Nada. Looked under broody turkey who is immediately under the nest boxes. Nope. Finally checked under the broody turkey in the floor nest on the other side of the coop and there it was. Somehow it jumped or fell out of the next boxes and crossed the coop to find a mommy. The turkey allowed it to slip under her so it had settled down for the night. I retrieved it and moved it to the broody coop with the Mama and other chick, feeling very relieved both to have found it safe and sound and to have found it before the turkey decided she'd hatched something and abandoned her nest of 18 or more eggs!

 

[SilkieSensation]

My 2 cents on exploding eggs-- weeping eggs are releasing the pressure so not as likely to explode. I get the bombs when I am burrying the whole eggs that did not hatch--- yukkkkeeeeeeee Rare, but memorable.

Leakers may not completely explode, but they will definitely get their nasty goo on any egg they come in contact with plus the inside of the bator where other eggs touch. That will spread the bacteria.