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I've got some speckled king eggs and whitesided brooksi eggs and some look rotten and others look nice and white and round, also there is bluish white mold all over them, first, will this harm the eggs and second, is there a way to get rid of it? What are the chances that the crumpled yellow colored eggs will even hatch? All my clutches last year had nice, white, round, mold free eggs and they all hatched.....Thanks
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Dustin Smith

Foot powder (anti-fungal).

I have a clutch of nigritis cooking right now (and are due to hatch any day). Mold started growing on the top egg, of a total of 8 in the clutch, about 4-6 weeks ago. I dusted the rest of the clutch and stopped the mold in it's tracks. The remaining 7 are pristine...however the one that started it all has died and it's fairly obvious.

Now, on the topic of good eggs gone bad...I think most on here would agree to not be in too much of a hurry to start chuckin' eggs in the trash at the first sign something may be wrong with them. You'd be surprised at some of the crappy looking eggs some babies have crawled out of. This was a topic on here not too long ago and if my memory serves me correctly, someone actually did throw some eggs away, in a garbage can, only to later on find some babies inside that had hatched.

The bluish/white mold isn't a good sign at all, and neither is the yellow wrinkled in one. All I can say is go get some Dr. Scholl's anti-fungal powder and give them a light dusting after you rub off any excess fungus you can with a small brush or old tooth brush, etc... Neither of those scenarios sound good but this is your only hope if there is any substantial time left for them to incubate.

One last word of advice too, whatever you do, don't toss any out that you are not 100% sure are bad, because I have seen some very nasty eggs hatch with perfectly healthy neonates inside. A good indicator they are bad and beyond hope is smelling the white part of the egg. Bad eggs have a very unique weird smell to them as opposed to viable ones with a living embryo inside. I have never been wrong about the smell of bad ones yet.

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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This is not my picture, but as Micah said, check these out! These eggs hatched, so NEVER throw them away until you are 100% sure. Maybe move them to a separate container for safety until the others hatch. And this is not my picture, it is David's from the hog forum, but I thought it would help.

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Jeremy Thompson
Captive Born Investments Inc.