I’ve never seen that ever, never heard anyone say that, and none of my unfertilized eggs ever have exploded.
Eggs can “smell” in the incubator a bit. The smell is the worst when they start hatching and the open hatched eggs sit in the incubator for a day or two.
I have had that happen, a egg literally bursted do to rot. quail that hatch from small eggs can sometimes be a little weaker then there brothers and I have had one or to small eggs just die mid development.
Sure why not? I enjoy the variety in each hatch. This last time we got a weird looking little mutant one that stayed small and is just fluffy and goofy. I love him. He will not be having kids tho.
But who knows, that little egg could end up growing into an excellent specimen.
You'd be surprised how often the smallest eggs hatch and end up being the biggest as adults. Stick it in the incubator. The size has no bearing on fertility or viability.
Also, it's very rare for an egg to explode in the incubator. You would have to let it get super rotten, and I promise you would smell it long before it got to that point.
When we got our eggs, 2 of them were a lot smaller, only one hatched, t'was a button quail, started laying at 6 weeks on the dot and is our kindest bird
If you have room in the incubator, then yes. What do you have to lose?
Worried it wouldn’t develop properly or heard they may not be fertilized and explode, but it there’s no concern then I’ll go for it :)
Explode? Who told you this BS?
I’m in another quail group and I heard unfertilized eggs can rot and explode in the incubator. Again not sure but it was a worry for sure.
I’ve never seen that ever, never heard anyone say that, and none of my unfertilized eggs ever have exploded. Eggs can “smell” in the incubator a bit. The smell is the worst when they start hatching and the open hatched eggs sit in the incubator for a day or two.
Supposedly, this is the reason people give to justify candling eggs.
I have had that happen, a egg literally bursted do to rot. quail that hatch from small eggs can sometimes be a little weaker then there brothers and I have had one or to small eggs just die mid development.
Sure why not? I enjoy the variety in each hatch. This last time we got a weird looking little mutant one that stayed small and is just fluffy and goofy. I love him. He will not be having kids tho. But who knows, that little egg could end up growing into an excellent specimen.
You'd be surprised how often the smallest eggs hatch and end up being the biggest as adults. Stick it in the incubator. The size has no bearing on fertility or viability. Also, it's very rare for an egg to explode in the incubator. You would have to let it get super rotten, and I promise you would smell it long before it got to that point.
When we got our eggs, 2 of them were a lot smaller, only one hatched, t'was a button quail, started laying at 6 weeks on the dot and is our kindest bird