Today I learned...

Why incubating is a hobby best done in a room with a bomb-proof floor. I have been using our hardwood floored office for incubating. Today I was candeling eggs to put into lockdown ..... you see where this is heading?

I was putting the "bad" ones in a newspaper nest ontop of a stool, and I was sitting on the floor with my head in the 'bator...

I must have nudged the stool with my knee...

And I heard the dreaded "POP" ... followed by the vile, thick and vomit-evoking odour of rotten egg. OH NO!

You guessed it.. rotten egg, nicely seeped into the cracks between hardwood floor boards. BAD BAD BAD idea. I have spent the last hour on my hands and knees, trying to scrub the rotten egg out of the floor... rotten egg on my pants, shirt, hands, knees, floor.... What a morning!

That is really bad I fell sorry for you.

Oh no

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Oh yuck I am now glad I set up my bator in our storage room with a concrete floor and not the spare room with carpet!

Anne

You also unwittingly learned the most basic, but more often than not, ignored, important principal. What goes up must come down.

Do you have a shop vac? I'd be adding water and immediately sucking it up, anything to dilute that intense egg stuff. Add water, suck, add water, suck. I know you don't want water on wood floors, but if you sucked it up immediately then it wouldn't have time to seep in.

I incubate in a carpeted room. I have visions of this same accident and Hubby taking a utility knife and cutting a nice, neat square out of the middle of the carpet. I set all eggs on the floor, not so far to fall that way. Good luck!

I have learned from hard personal experience that you need a HASMAT suit to deal with exploding eggs. You have my sympathy, I need only to recall the experience to start retching.
I now wrap suspect eggs in a sheet of paper towel, just in case.
Good luck with your floor it sounds like you have been given some good advice.

Oooo...that's just nasty. Not many things more revolting than rotten egg smell.
Hope the clean up goes well for you.

Oh phew. This is really making me rethink incubating in carpeted rooms.

Hope cleanup was a smell ridding success.

Well I think I got it all out... took a little Oxyclean and a small scrub brush to scrub in the cracks, then shoved the edge of a paper towel between the wood to soak it up! Hurray! I think we'll be moving the incubators for spring. LOL

BriarwoodPoultry wrote:Well I think I got it all out... took a little Oxyclean and a small scrub brush to scrub in the cracks, then shoved the edge of a paper towel between the wood to soak it up! Hurray! I think we'll be moving the incubators for spring. LOL

agreed

Wow, I can only imagine the smell indoors. It was bad enough when I tossed a suspect duck egg into the composter ( as I was outside and the composter was right there). That egg flew back with such a velocity that it hit a tree and nearly took my head off. Oh and the smell that followed now I treat any suspect egg with respect! LOL

XOX Monika

OK BP I'll share my stinky story. At least as awful as it was you were there to clean up right away.
We also incubate in a hardwood floor room.
This time however, hubby wanted to process our pumpkins. He did one, put the other one under the table in this room (last fall). I let it be as it seemed find and, well, it was his thing to deal with.
Room has been smelling funny. I figured I must have missed something cleaning up or maybe it needed cleaning as it tends to be a catch all room.
After a lovely BBQ party for our son's first b-day yesterday I came in here and saw seepage, yes...seepage from a rotting melting pumpkin.
"Oh...Honey...remember your pumpkin?"
Unfortunately the wood is wrecked in the crevices. It hasn't lifted, just visual. We may have some spare wood to fix it but that's another chore to be added to the endless list.
At least there's no funny smell anymore.