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ok at what point do you throw any weird eggs out? soft, caved in ect.....
i would like to hear your responces because i am doing a couple experiments with eggs this year
oh and if you can on iffy or bad looking eggs estimate how many hatch

thanks guys
 
wellI don't throw them out they they are so nasty and gross that they are totally molded and collpsed to the point of no return lol

I did have 2 that I thought were bad hatch, they got moldy and never hardened but I used some desenex to clear up the mold and they hatched.
 
I don’t throw eggs out until they are really bad just like Wendy. Usually when they start to smell I know they’re done. I’ve had a lot of experience this year with infertile eggs and they get bad real quick.
 
thing is i found two very dehydrated eggs (must missed them) but still slightly soft (they were not brittle but caved majorly in) so i decided to try and incubate them... its been about five days now... they are conpletely nornmal now and i will candle them in a couple of days to see if i can veining
 
I save them until they mold are start to smell. If they look infertile or are long shots like the ones you described. I'll usually put them in a separate cup.

-Alice
 
well,

I incubate anything that has a shade of a chance of being fertile. If it's a limp, flat, water-balloon I throw it out, otherwise it gets labeled and put in the incubator until it either hatches or becomes a moldy 'science project'.
 
these two eggs i missed, looked like raisins and felt very rubbery sorta (but not brittle)... today they look totally normal like the rest of my eggs
 
Robin it sounds like you saved a pair of good eggs. I dont think infertile ones would plump back up. Anyways I would definitely incubate those ones, they show promise. And ditto what eveyone else says, I dont toss until they smell, explode, or implode and start to grow other life forms. I've even had some (not most) waterballoony ones will firm up and eventually hatch.
 
I found two dried up eggs a couple of weeks ago..... They were caved in pretty deap..... I put them in the incubator and they plumped up in like 3 days..... They are fertile and seem to be doing fine.....

I will toss an egg only when it starts to smell.....
 
I'd keep em Robin! They sound promising. I would however put them in a seperate cup just incase they are mutant aliens and ARE going to explode green life sucking juice all over the place.


But i doubt it. :)
 
Can we get a description of the water ballooning egg you guys are talking about? I am not sure what you are referring to.
 
LOL i did and labled it my "target experiment" (like im a friggon mad scientist LOL) and they look perfect like they were never a raisin
 
very thin shelled (almost transparant but not quite) usually larger, not as firm as normal eggs, softer and they GET HUGE... sometimes they can take on an outwardly offwhite appearance or kinda odd colored
 
somtimes, for some reason, the nest substarate doesnt seem to stick to it as well, like it does with normal eggs (i use spagnum peat)
 
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