Unusual egg question

[duluthralphie]

If it's dark when you candle and sloshes around......RUN!

I prefer the walk slowly and carefully to your neighbors garbage can method myself.

 

[paleochick]

No air sac. Nothing, just a dense egg. I think you are right about a gut feeling. Guess it will go in a baggy then be cracked.

 

[lastco]

@duluthralphie I'll keep that in mind if my neighbors continue to allow their dog to crap in my yard.

 

[Marybellaian]

I have three eggs under my broody hen (not hers, from another chicken) and when i picked one of the eggs up it felt like something was moving inside (as I slowly turned the egg if felt like something moved from one side of the egg to the other).

Has this happened to anyone before? I couldn't find any info through a search.

Does this mean the chick is dead and no longer attached to the sac inside the egg?

This is only the second time I have tried to hatch eggs and the others I hatched had no problems.

Julie

I wouldn't be picking them up! Leave them to mum you may be doing damage

 

[paleochick]

Put it in three baggies and cracked it. Not horribly rotten yet (i could have gotten away with neighbor's garbage) but only a partially developed embryo.

At least there are two more eggs under my hen.

 

[bobbi-j]

I have never felt a dead embryo move in an egg. They just dry out in place, I just had a rotten one I pulled out of a nest, I felt the movement, candled fast and set it gently in the neighbors garbage can...And snuck back home.

No air sac. Nothing, just a dense egg. I think you are right about a gut feeling. Guess it will go in a baggy then be cracked.

Good plan.

@duluthralphie I'll keep that in mind if my neighbors continue to allow their dog to crap in my yard.

In that case, you want to put the egg somewhere in a high-traffic area on their lawn where they will hopefully step on it.