[Helenaj]

Hi everyone. I've just gone to top up the water in my incy and one of the eggs is bleeding moisture. There are little bubbles of clear liquid on the outside of the shell and some have gone hard and look like dried breadcrumbs. There is definately an embryo in the egg, I could see it when I candled them last night and there was nothing wrong with the egg then - it was dry, but looked porous on candling.

 The eggs have been in the incy for 8 days.  It's an automatic Brinsea incubator and all I have to do is top up the water levels every few days and it's never run dry.
 Do I remove it or leave it alone and is there any chance it's likely to explode? Any advice greatly received.

[jinty1911]

Think this is one for our new Mod.   

[Helenaj]

I've just checked it again and there are still beads of moisture on the egg.  It's not water as the consistency is thick - I'm assuming it's the albumen (egg white), but I can't understand how it has suddenly started happening. There was nothing on it this morning. I'm a bit concerned that if it is the albumen, I don't want it hardening on the base of the incy and affecting the other eggs, but equally I don't want to dump a fertile egg if there's a chance it will hatch.

[min200]

If the egg looked porus I would get rid of it. 

[AL Hathaway]

Eggs that are seeping or giving "off" smells should be pulled from the incubator.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/812/the-incubation-of-ratite-eggs

[Casey76]

If the egg starts seeping, then I would dump it.

I've had this happen a few times, especially with posted eggs, and no one has hatched.  Now I pull htem from hte incubator as soon as I notice it.

[Helenaj]

Hi everyone, thanks for your replies. I've now removed the egg and checked the others and happily, there's no residue from this egg on any other. I've heard of porous eggs, but I did not realise that they could literally leak. I just thought it made the egg more vulnerable to air bourne bacteria.

Again, thanks everyone - I can always rely on good advice on here!