Egg Emergency!!!!

What a great thread in spite of your losses. Your doing great at this. My nerves would probably be shot :) I can't wait to see the babies.

Don't worry about the mold on the one egg. Assuming the split egg has a healthy living animal in it, the mold will not spread. So long as an egg is healthy, it fights the mold on it's own. I have had eggs go bad and mold up as quick as 10 days into incubation and left them attached to other eggs the rest of the 50 days, with no ill effects. Leave it in there until the end, to give it a fighting chance.

Today is day 45. The four good eggs are moving around a lot more. If I positioned the light just right I saw pattern on two of them. I'm pretty sure one is a spider! Now that the plastic wrap was re-glued down, it is holding extremely well. No more leaks and the baby is doing well.

Not much longer to go! Now, the baby with the plastic wrap on the egg. Should I be worried about it trying to pip through the plastic wrap or where the glue is? Or will it figure out that it needs to cut through the side of the egg?

Hi,

I would have thought that, when the first one pips, you could just cut the plastic wrap?


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Yea, that makes sense. :P

The bad eggs insides used to be almost clear with a red blob to one side that was the embryo and yolk sac. Now the entire inside of the egg is a deep red/pink. I saw the tiniest vein (it was maybe 1cm long and very faint) but I don't think it means anything. The inside of the egg seems to be getting darker, and I feel like it is probably beginning to cook. If it is dead it has been that way for 10 days now. I'm not sure how long it takes them to become solidified inside. I was thinking of cutting a small slit in this egg on day 50 (if it has not already become completely opaque) just to see what's going on in there. I'm incubating between 87.5 and 88.5.

Wow. This is a such a great story. Showing how resilient the little eggs are. I really hope everything turns out. Good luck in the next few days! I'll be waiting for a pipping photo. :)

What an interesting and informative thread! We are all rooting for healthy babies to pip.

The saran wrap was truly inspired, and life-saving. I wonder how Tegaderm would work in a situation like this. It is a semi-permeable transparent adhesive wound dressing that can be placed right over an open wound.

:') This thread is so full of hope and information! Sending good vibes to the little guys, and can't wait to see them!! (will you be selling any...? ;) )

I've decided to cut the bad egg open today just to see what's going on inside. If the baby inside is obviously dead, then I can go ahead and throw the egg out. On the very off chance the baby is still alive, then at least I know. I'll be doing this as soon as my phone charges so I can take pictures of what I find. If the baby is indeed dead then it died on the day of the accident or day or two after, so the age will be roughly 36 days into incubation. I will be posting pictures here of the inside of the egg and the baby if it is indeed dead.

So that is a WARNING that this thread will contain possibly graphic pictures of the inside of the egg. I don't know if I can change the title of the thread to warn about this, but here is a warning!