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Posted by: zach_whitman at Fri May 15 11:27:20 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zach_whitman ]  
   

That is not true at all. I have seen fungus take over and kill several healthy FERTILE clutches.

An egg's immune system is rudimentary at best. I have seen fungal stuff go both ways. Sometimes I have seen fertile eggs go totally green and fuzzy and still hatch out a healthy baby. Other times I have seen one little dot of mold kill an egg instantly.

It has to do with the pathogenicity of the individual fungus. Some invade the shell others stay on the surface, some produce toxins and others don't, some grow densely and don't allow the egg to breathe and others grow tightly or invade the shell and suffocate the egg, and most importantly some are very fast growing and invasive.

If it is easy and convenient like it was with separate eggs in this case there is NO reason to put good eggs at risk.

   

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