why is it bad to incubate a porous egg?

[chkinut]

that's my question. i'm gonna try to guess though....is it cuz they release too much moisture? or take in too much humidity? that's my only guess. can they hatch at ALL? and if they do hatch, are the chicks healthy? i have quite a bit of porous eggs in my shipping eggs, and i'm wondering if i should still keep them in the bator?

 

[Lotsapaints]

wasting space they never hatched for me and then you run the risk of bacteria so when I get one now I just toss it but they are okay to eat if you are gathering eggs but they are a sign of something not right if you get lots of them from your hens.

 

[babsbag]

Before I set my eggs I candled my bantie eggs, from 4 different hens, ALL of them looked porous to me. I compared them to pictures I saw. They looked speckled. I siad, "what the hey, let's try this" and 9 out of 10 hatched. Maybe they weren't porous, but they sure did look like spotted eggs when I candled them. When I candled again at day 8 I didn't see the spots.

 

[naturesluxuries]

What could it be a sign of if you see a lot of them? I had just got my hens a couple weeks ago and quite a few of them were like that but not as much now. I put about 20 eggs in incubator and 3-4 of them are like that.

 

[Lotsapaints]

here's the link to see one



I can't remember where I read it maybe University of Mississippi's web site or Oklahoma's both of those places are very helpful so is IL's tey even know what vitamins are lacking by the day eggs quit....

 

[debilorrah]

New layers often lay pourous eggs for the first month or so, then they get harder and thicker. Pourous eggs can absorb bacteris from poop and the ground, etc.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

I hatched two very porous eggs from my chickens last month. Totally healthy chicks from very new layers. So they can hatch.

 

[kid-n-chickens]

I put them in and if they make it they do and if they don't they don't but have had as much success and failure with them as normal eggs. I say go for it you don't have anything to lose!

 

[Cindiloohoo]

Mine hatch most of the time. Depends on how clean the coop is they are gathered from too IMO. If they have apropriate nest boxes and plenty of bedding in them, making some nice clean eggs, I haven't had issue with them not hatching. Non porous eggs are preffered as it is a risk of bacteria.

 

[debilorrah]

Let me just say - I would hatch my OWN eggs if they were pourous because I know where they came from. Shipped eggs not so much.