That Quail Place Forum
Raising Gamebirds => Incubation => Topic started by: pamike on May 26, 2006, 08:15:20 PM
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I have an egg that if I turn it to the x up side it will flip to almost o up. and no matter what posiyion I turn it to it will flip to the same position every time it never fails. I am 100% sure it is not fertile but it was just wierd.
mike
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Mike are you going to at least try to hatch it?
Scot
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yea sounds like a bad egg. from my experience, usually an egg with the innerds dried up to one end. Notice it on eggs with cracks. You can try to incubate it then candle it at a week or more. If it is no good then can toss it.
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yup its cracked pretty good too. I have candled it and I am gonna do it again tonight. I think it will be a tossed egg tonight. it has been 9 days and no growth.
mike
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while I was turning eggs I found the wierd egg and one more that were cracked in half, they were both dried out pretty bad. about half of the egg was dried up. Is this a normal thing for infertile eggs?
mike
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No, but it is very normal for a cracked egg.
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ok, I had alot of cracked eggs. on just did it while I was turning eggs again.
mike
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ok, I had alot of cracked eggs. on just did it while I was turning eggs again.
mike
Why are you trying to incubate cracked eggs? If given the chance to remain in the incubator, the egg will explode. If more then one egg explodes you will have one hell of a time cleaning.
I do not recommend trying to hatch eggs that have any kind of spider cracks or different shades of opacity. These eggs will more then likely explode give the chance.
If you have an egg that has a pin hole in it, you can try using super glue or nail polish to seal it. This has work for me in the past.
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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should I remove all eggs that are cracked? or just the badly cracked ones and the ones that have leakes at all? Let me know so I can do it before an explosion.
mike
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Hello Mike, I would remove all eggs that show any type of cracks in them, I have heard about exploding eggs and hear it can be pretty bad. plush the smell isn't that great. so I would remove them
Scot
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Usually the innerds of cracked eggs will just dehydrate to the bottum end in incubation. But it's the ones that go rotten that will eventually crack and explode from bacteria build up.
since you have a candler, just remove all bad eggs.
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should I remove all eggs that are cracked? or just the badly cracked ones and the ones that have leakes at all? Let me know so I can do it before an explosion.
mike
pamike,
Once again, why would you incubate cracked eggs, and where are you getting these from?
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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All cracked eggs were removed yesterday. I got them form a guy on ebay and another seller on a forum.
mike
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Here's a wierd egg I got from my bobwhites.(http://)
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That was supposed to have a picture in it.LOL
The egg is about the size of a pea, I don't think it would have, but... is it possible for an egg that small to hatch?