UGH Egg exploded in the incubator!

[Joeschooks]

I agree that 24 hours is too soon. I can never see anything before about 3 days in. Try not to worry and best of luck with your hatch.

 

[SpinningJenny]

There wont be blood rings tomorrow. The embryos need to develop to day 7 or ten for them to die and go into a blood ring.

Watch out for more seeping eggs! Were the eggs shipped? Usually it is shipped eggs that go bad but not usually on day 1 or 2

THis is true, and I know it in my logical brain, but my worry brain is dominating right now and going "Everything's RUINED!" I tried to "sniff test" the rest of the eggs. Nothing was strong, just that lingering ick. I'll watch for the ooze.

The eggs are from a friends' flock. I've hatched them before. SHe's got such pretty birds, I love what I get and thought they'd be really interested for the kids to see all the different characteristics of the chicks. No shipping, just a car ride!

 

[Hyroler]

If you have to wash eggs use hydtogen peroxide.it disinfects outside of egg and it's a oral disinfectant so it doesn't hurt embryo if it's absorbed through pours of shell.you can also use Listerine mouth wash to clean eggs.

 

[ronott1]

You can use the peroxide or a weak bleach solution:

To Clean and Sanitize: Mix 2 tsp. of Clorox® Regular-Bleach per gallon of water. Pre-wash surface. Let stand 2 minutes. rinse and air dry.

For the eggs in the incubator, make up the soulution at 99.5F and let them sit in it for a couple of minutes. Dry them with a towel and put them into the incubator.

You are close enough to setting them that they will be fine.

Read more at https://www.clorox.com/products/clorox-concentrated-regular-bleach/#8eUM2CmsQxCOWyUF.99

 

[oregonkat]

THis is true, and I know it in my logical brain, but my worry brain is dominating right now and going "Everything's RUINED!" I tried to "sniff test" the rest of the eggs. Nothing was strong, just that lingering ick. I'll watch for the ooze.

The eggs are from a friends' flock. I've hatched them before. SHe's got such pretty birds, I love what I get and thought they'd be really interested for the kids to see all the different characteristics of the chicks. No shipping, just a car ride!

Do you know how often she collects eggs? I would love to know the age of the eggs when you set them. It seems to me that an egg has to have been compromised in some way to explode so soon on incubation. Usually the egg has to sit and heat up and the bacteria have to have a huge party in there before busting out, which means that there must have been a heat source prior to incubating. Is it possible that she had a broody that was sitting on this egg? Sorry to ask so many questions but this really interests me.

Anyway with regards to doing the HP spray, I don't know what to tell you. The eggs will have achieved internal temp. by 48 hours. Perhaps it's too late.

 

[ronott1]

If you have to wash eggs use hydtogen peroxide.it disinfects outside of egg and it's a oral disinfectant so it doesn't hurt embryo if it's absorbed through pours of shell.you can also use Listerine mouth wash to clean eggs.

Peroxide would be a very good choice. Feed stores sell an egg wash from Mana pro that has enzymes in it that works well too.

 

[Hyroler]

I spray all my eggs with hydrogen peroxide before incubating.I have never tried it after Incubation process has already begun.I still don't think it will hurt.Its better than washing with water or a kind of cleaning solution.

 

[oregonkat]

I guess if the HP is the same temp as the incubator it would be OK.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

If one egg was rotten enough to explode on day one it doesn't bode well for the other eggs in this batch. It normally takes some time for an egg to get ripe enough to go boom in an incubator, a fresh fertile egg just won't do that on the first day. I would question the source of these eggs.

 

[SpinningJenny]

Do you know how often she collects eggs? I would love to know the age of the eggs when you set them. It seems to me that an egg has to have been compromised in some way to explode so soon on incubation. Usually the egg has to sit and heat up and the bacteria have to have a huge party in there before busting out, which means that there must have been a heat source prior to incubating. Is it possible that she had a broody that was sitting on this egg? Sorry to ask so many questions but this really interests me.

Anyway with regards to doing the HP spray, I don't know what to tell you. The eggs will have achieved internal temp. by 48 hours. Perhaps it's too late.

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.