First clutch.......Problems!

[dmaricle]

what is the perfect humidity for an egg box?

[Mike Cavanaugh]

99% humidity.... pretty damn hard to maintain tho.

[dmaricle]

so as long as there is no water dripping on the eggs the higher the better?

[pmott1]

Just wanted to updat a little.The 3 eggs that werent looking so good have since turned green.Im guessing they were infertile anyways . There are still 2 good eggs.Also the slug hasnt molded or started to rot which i figured it would?

[muddoc]

I read your post above, but just wanted to say that the two eggs on the left in the pictures look to me like they had already gone bad. The waxy look, with the slight hints of blue is a dead giveaway.

Good Luck with the remaining two.

[pmott1]

just an update. 4 eggs went bad.I believe my mix was too wet.The remaining egg is doing very well as i remixed.Thanks for everyones suggestions.

[Bill Buchman]

I candle every egg before it goes in the incubator. If it does not have veins -- it goes in the trash. 305 went in -- only 5 went bad. No need to spend time on infertile eggs or slugs. Candle EVERYTHING.

[muddoc]

After seeing Bill's post, I wanted to interject my experience. I incubate everything. As Bill said, I candle everything (numerous times throughout incubation). Out of 14 questionable eggs last year, 4 of them went full term and hatched just fine. I say incubate it anyway. It will go bad if was never meant to be.

Just my .02,

[ctrlfreq]

After seeing Bill's post, I wanted to interject my experience. I incubate everything.

This may sound stupid, but slugs included? I've seen a number of pics where people have them in their egg boxes, but I'm just prone to tossing them out personally.

[muddoc]

This may sound stupid, but slugs included? I've seen a number of pics where people have them in their egg boxes, but I'm just prone to tossing them out personally.

Excellent catch. You act like a Lawyer finding loop holes. Actually, we don't not incubate slugs. What I meant was anything that is not a slug (i.e. if it looks remotely white), I give it the opportunity to go bad in due time in the bator.