Makes it all worthwhile!

[Patrick Long]

Heres to the odds from the gods!

[jknudson]

Heres to the odds from the gods!

Big thanks Pat!

[jknudson]

The egg with the window is obviously bad...some nice smells coming from the egg...I would like to pull it...however... it's still attached to it's neighbors...and one area where it contacts the other egg appears "wet"....

Anyone with experience with eggs going bad have recommendations what to do? Should I cut the egg away to remove it? and leave a little bit of it's eggshell attached to the other eggs?

[ADEE]

congrats!! how exciting, with the added bonus of having no idea whats gonna hatch out!

[jknudson]

I was thinking about using dental floss to get them apart because I figured it would be more precision than scissors. I'm worried about the egg with the wet spot. All the other eggs appear fine.

Cut it out...or leave it and let it decompose further?

[Adam_Wysocki]

Anyone with experience with eggs going bad have recommendations what to do? Should I cut the egg away to remove it? and leave a little bit of it's eggshell attached to the other eggs?

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

[frankykeno]

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! )

[jknudson]

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.

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

[MarkS]

Adam pretty much covered it, though he does a bit more then I typically do. Most people will tell you not to worry about it because the good egg will be protected by the immune system of the embryo. And usually thats true, however I have seen good eggs go bad because they were attached to rotting eggs so if I can do it safely, I always remove the bad egg. Usually it'll peal away fairly easy if the rotten egg is sweating, if not I'll open and empty the rotten egg and then trim away as much of the shell as possible. If there are windows on the good eggs they'll usually be fine, but if you want you can touch them up with some liquid bandaid (which now comes in a package of handy applicator swabs) Sounds like you pretty much got it covered already.

Mark

[daaangconcepts]

Congrats Jrock!!

Edit: Whoa just read through the thread. So sorry best of luck with the rest of the clutch!