Egg question

How weird exactly can an egg get before you know its dead? I've heard it has to like, explode and grow mold and stink to high heaven before you throw it away. I have this one egg, its two weeks old and collapsed, but its been that way for about a week and I candled it and there is a big pink mass inside. It doesnt smell, theres no mold, and i dont know what to make of it. Would it hurt the baby to keep it? Is it worth keeping? It would be my first fertile egg so i really hope it is. Im sort of worried if it does develop in that egg there could be problems when it hatches, what do you guys think?

Add some water to the incubation medium. Eggs sometimes dimple or collapse whenever there isn't enough moisture. Just add a tiny bit of water around the edges, wait 24 hours, and see if it rises. I personally wouldn't throw it away until it grew mold. I have heard of babies hatching from dimpled/collapsed eggs fine.

I definetly would not throw it! When mine do that i take some of the incubation medium and cover it and they generally plump back up in a day, sometimes two. But dont throw it if you see a pink mass.

I've had a baby hatch from an egg that was half collapsed. For some reason, that particular egg dimpled/collapsed so quickly and severely compared to its clutchmate. I put damp papertowel in the container and circled it around the perimeter without touching the eggs. After several days, the egg finally looked normal. I was amazed that it hatched, because of how awful it had looked. Beautiful, normal baby!