Yesterday I was checking my egg incubator to see if any more ducklings or guineas from the current batch were going to hatch. I'd had some hatching out the day before and rather suspected that no more would hatch but left them in the incubator to give any slow hatchers a chance.
I touched one particular egg and *pow*! Disaster! It didn't really explode in the sense of eggshell shrapnel flying about the room, but the eggshell broke suddenly, violently and stinkily. Yuck! I pulled the whole incubator tray out, and removed several Muscovy eggs that still have a week to go before hatching and put them on a clean incubator tray.
The broken egg was making my whole house stink way worse than normal, so I quick took the soiled tray outdoors. I heard a peep-peeping noise from one of the eggs, and saw that one--- not the rotten one of course--- had started to hatch. I broke it out of the egg and put it in the brooder, where the little duckling dried off nicely.
I then had to make an emergency run to the grocery store to buy some air fresheners 'cause the room with the incubator still smelled like rotten eggs. The air fresheners work. My house still stinks, just not like rotten eggs.
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