Egg dying, do I detach? (And how?)

A healthy egg usually won't be affected by a bad egg. I had a clutch of 7 eggs and 4 went bad after about 4 weeks. They shriveled up turned brown and looked disgusting. But the other 3 stayed white as snow and hatched just fine.

IMO its probably better to just leave them.

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Originally Posted by jluman

I would just leave it. Here's one that I left in the pile a few years ago:

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z.../dead_egg1.jpg

All of the babies in the other eggs were fine. The fluid in the neighboring eggs was darker than usual, but that was the only thing different.

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BLEUGH! That looks just awful. Kind of amazing the other babies were fine. Well, okay then!

I just candled it, and there are no veins. The other 5 are have strong veins and look healthy as horses. I didn't actually candle the entire clutch when it was laid, so I have no idea if that one egg died, or was never really fertile to begin with. But it's definitely not now.

Oh, nasty, the dying egg is covered in fuzzy gray mold today. Sigh. I might just paint it over in liquid band-aid to contain the awfulness.

Shouldn't you eventually remove it though? I've been very fortunate in my few years of breeding to not have to deal with this, but I would be afraid that the others might pip into the bad egg? Has anyone ever had that happen? If so, I'm assuming it would not be good...


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