UGH Egg exploded in the incubator!

[oregonkat]

I had similar thoughts. The egg was marked as collected 3/31, and she does collect daily since she has a larger flock. So it should have been less than a week old at set. It is possible there was a hairline crack I didn't see. It's also possible it was laid earlier, missed, and collected after somebroody sat on it a bit. I agree that just a few hours (not even a full day yet) in the heat of the incubator could not have caused that much rot so fast. It must have been a dud from the very outset. But, it's in the dumpster now. No telling what the cause truly was.

What did you decide to do about your remaining eggs? Anything or did you decide to just let them be and see how it goes?

 

[MigraineMan]

Just pulled a stinky oozing egg out and "popped" it on the compost pile.

 

[MigraineMan]

Had another egg explode in the incubator. This has not been a good experience ... we're 1 for 19. We shut down the incubator and retired the remaining three eggs.

 

[SpinningJenny]

Just pulled a stinky oozing egg out and "popped" it on the compost pile.

Haha! You are brave. I would have buried that thing so deep!

 

[SpinningJenny]

Had another egg explode in the incubator. This has not been a good experience ... we're 1 for 19. We shut down the incubator and retired the remaining three eggs.
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I'm so sorry to hear that! I've had bad hatches, too. It's ok tho. You can try again! Where'd you get the eggs from? If they were shipped you may get some money back - some places have certain hatch rate guarantee. Or next time try a local.source!

 

[SpinningJenny]

What did you decide to do about your remaining eggs? Anything or did you decide to just let them be and see how it goes?

We waited a week, then checked and there was no development or they quit. So we chucked them all out and started again. Out of 18 eggs we got 10 hatched, but 2 didn't make it (hard when they hatch overnight in the classroom). So we have 8 and the kids were very happy. They still talk about the explorer tho. Event of the year!