Flushing Egg?

[Lana's_mom]

Ok, I know I am probably being over paraniod with these being my first clutch and all. But I cut the eggs 2 days ago on day 56, just a tiny "V". Well last night a cut the "V" a little bigger because one of the babies looked like it might of had a twisted umbilicle(spelling?). The eggs still don't have a huge amount cut. Now this morning I looked at them and one egg looks a little cloudy while the other 2 are clear. It's not major cloudy, but does seem to be a little. I have heard of people fluching eggs with water and I wanted make sure how that is done before doing it. I was thinking of taking a syringe, no needle, like one of the kids old medicine ones, and using it to put water in the egg. But that seems like it would be bad for the baby. So how do you do it? I had hoped to see them sticking their heads out by now, and for all I know they have, My incubator is a beach cooler and stays dark, and its lid is very snug so when I open it its noticable and the babies have time to tuck back into their eggs before I open the egg tub. I just want them to come out of the eggs soon so I can quit worrying so much about them Thanks.

[Don]

Leave them eggs alone! If you start to see brown goop in the eggs, then you may need to flush it out, a little cloudy and you are fine. If you do have to flush out the egg, then your first step is to put a bottle of water or saline in your incubator to get it to the same temperature as the egg. Then all you do is fill a syringe and gently flush out the old gunky water with new.

Hatching out eggs takes a lot of patience. The eggs are pretty hardy and most times will do fine without much fiddling. The more you mess with them, the more you stress out the babies. Good luck!

[Lana's_mom]

Ok, Thanks I will leave them be.