OLD egg??

[hqueen13]

So. This isn't really a livestock question, but I figured this was the best section as any.
Several years ago, ehh, probably 4 or 5 by now.... a friend of mine and I managed to, um, procure an emu egg. This was while they were living in CA, and so she kept it, intending to blow it for preservation. However, she didn't. And then when they moved back here, she brought it to me.
And so this egg has been sitting around for, um, years.
And I noticed recently that it is oily on the outside, which is a bit annoying if it is sitting next to something.

So, uhh, what does happen to an egg when it gets old??

 

[Beekissed]

It rots and then it kind of petrifies in there...dries up and hardens. I wouldn't know about the oil...maybe emu eggs have a different composition of shell that would cause it to weep oil?

 

[fair weather chicken]

dont break it or can you say p-yewww. lol

 

[hqueen13]

You're not kidding, fair weather chicken!! I was mostly asking to try to make sure that I don't do anything silly with it. How long do you think it would take to 'petrify' Bee???

 

[rhoda_bruce]

If you decide to pop a hole in it, be sure you wearing gloves and are completely outta the house...several yards away would be even nicer. You might wanna bust 2 holes and drain it out if you first drown it in a water based solution with cleaners, etc... Until then, you will always run the risk of it cracking in the house if there is an accident. Of course, if the smell isn't offensive when cracked and it truely is completely dried, which it may well be, you might be sorry to wet it. I think I'd like to find an emu egg; but a fresh fertile one. Curious about how it would taste.

 

[Beekissed]

You're not kidding, fair weather chicken!! I was mostly asking to try to make sure that I don't do anything silly with it. How long do you think it would take to 'petrify' Bee???

I think that would vary from egg to egg according to the conditions under which they were kept during that time....hard to say. If it still has enough moisture in it to seep oily fluid, I'd be thinking it hasn't gotten there yet.

I once cracked~or exploded~a truly rotten egg and that smell would simply NOT wash off my hands or out of my clothing, off the wall, etc. It was truly the most unforgettable and horrible smell I've ever smelled and that is saying a lot......

I'm a nurse and I've been fist deep in wounds that had smelly, green drainage that would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon, I've gutted gut-shot deer, wiped a thousand poopy butts, cleaned up stinkin' infectious lung butter, picked a man's rotten flesh off the floor where it had dropped off his cancer-eaten face....

.....you could say that I've been exposed to some pretty choice odors but THAT smell topped them all and I can still taste it in my mouth when I remember it now. There isn't a smiley that could express it, so I won't try.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

Yep.......I had an egg explode on me, but it was being incubated. It was actually a power that ended up on my hand and the smell lingered a while. Fortunately I was outside. I have smelled those other things you have mentioned also, but I can't say I did a comparison. Its not a pleasant one.
I'm not sure its really worth it to keep that egg. I have 2 of them somewhere in my house and I can't say I even know what I will do with them. I'm not exactly the decorating type. I wonder what emu would taste like though.

 

[hqueen13]

So how would one attempt to get rid of a potential egg turned biological weapon at this point?????

 

[Beekissed]

Got any neighbors you don't like? Just kiddin'.....