Quote Originally Posted by akaangela View Post
I agree that I was worried and maybe jumped the gun but with all the eggs so swollen it could be that I had them too moist, or some other error on my part and if I had waited maybe one would have been ready and not been able to get out. When I went through the pipping threads a large part said their eggs dimpled as piping time came near and not only where mine not dimpling but they where so full that when I put a small hole in them the fluid literally gushed out (that is why I think I had them too moist) and I had to poke fairly hard with sharp scissors to get that first hole.
I made a thread about my eggs not dimpling but reading this makes me wonder:

My eggs were like that too, really swollen, the only one that dimpled was the one on top which wasn't touching the vermiculite, so my guess is that the substrate was too wet? But, I didn't put all that much water in the vermiculite. It was the consistency where you squeeze it and it clumps but if you drop it again, it breaks apart. So not too wet, but apparently it was?