Quote Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki View Post
What I typically do is take the eggs out of the box and bring them over to the deep sink ... I use scissors to completely gut the rotten egg (keeping all of the gunk off of the good eggs with press and seal ... love that stuff) and then use the scissors to cut away as much as the bad egg shell as I can. After I'm done, I use a q-tip to spread a generous amount of anti-fungal powder on the parts of the bad egg shell that are still stuck to the good eggs. This process has always worked very well for me.

A solid egg maintenance strategy is very important and often overlooked by many breeders that are just starting out.

Hope this helps.

-adam
I really appreciate that excellent advice Adam.

Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
Gah that must take a strong stomach Adam! Great advice though and info I'll be scribbling down just in case. (P.S. It's great to have you back! )
This egg was RANK!


So...I went through the process that Adam described...although I don't have a sink in my reptile room. I took the group of three out and put them in another tub to work. Well first I wanted to see if I could separate them with VERY careful peeling of the eggs apart.

Luckily, one egg broke free fairly easily...with a bit of force, and with my stomach wrenched with nervousness.

The other egg...well, that wasn't seeming to separate as easily. So I cut the egg open, and I really didn't know what to expect it to look like...it looked mostly like a hard boiled egg, and there was a tiny maybe quarter inch long "worm" attached to the mass... The yolk was obviously rotten, but there was an embryo inside.

Once I emptied the eggs contents...I trimmed the egg shell back a bit...and figured...I'd give peeling a go again...well I must've gotten a tiny bit of yolk on other egg...but maybe it acted as a lubricant...I don't know really, but the remainder of the bad egg shell came free.

The area where the egg was attached on the good egg looks thin, but isn't torn at all, and looks good overall. If need be I may add "New Skin" to that part of the egg shell.

After I re-setup the two good eggs I dusted them with the anti-fungal powder like suggested. Hopefully, that's all they'll need and those eggs are out of harms way.

Thanks again for the advice.

I was going to take photos of the bad egg's contents...but it was too ripe to keep it in my house any longer.

Jason