whats up with this egg

[crunkmasterflex]

today i checked on my clutch of 7 that was remaining out of 10 and i threw 2 away because they were all rotten and molded so i tossed those and i am down to 5 but when i decided to open up the 2 eggs i wanted to throw out to see if there was a lil worm growing in them i found nothing but this white pussy stuff almost like a yolk is this spose to be normal the eggs were hatched a month and 20 days ago so they are due in 10 days? shouldn't there be a lil worm in there by now or something.. are they not fertile???

 

[Sasheena]

do you mean to say the eggs were laid 20 days ago?

Was the white stuff solid or liquid?

Were there any signs of blood vessels?

Some eggs were never fertile and usually get a hard boiled look to them on the inside after ten or twenty days... and fertile ones that die in early gestation also get this hard boiled look to them inside the eggshell. If you didn't find a little worm inside then I would say they were either infertile, or never developed beyond the cellular stage.

 

[crunkmasterflex]

no the eggs were laid a month and 21 days ago so most likely they are infertile dammit that suxs

 

[A_Mc]

If you cut open infertile eggs-slugs, you get that thick whitish/yellow stuff that looks like condensed milk. What do the rest of your eggs look like? Did you candle them to check for embryos or blood vessels at any time? It's pretty simple to tell fertile eggs from slugs when they are laid....Fertile eggs usually have a whiter, firmer shell, and are usually larger than the slugs. Slugs feel kind of 'mushy', fertile eggs feel kind of 'springy'.

 

[Sasheena]

I've had slugs laid that looked PERFECT... but they always remained vein-free and eventually rot. While OBVIOUS slugs can be pitched, there is NO guarantee that a non-slug-looking egg is NOT a slug.

 

[A_Mc]

Of course, if there's any question, you incubate it....eventually you will know one way or the other.