Newbie Needs Incubator Culling Advice...

[Kadra]

I have 5 eggs in a Little Giant Still Air incubator at day 17. I have candled on and off... Tonight, 2 of them looked really viable (veins, etc.), 2 looked questionable (their "dark mass" was about half the size of the others and seemed more "fluid"?) The last one, a Black Copper Maran egg, looked clear but had a definite air pocket. One seemed to have a blood ring a day or two ago but I can't find one now. I am leaving town in the morning and my husband is going to take over for lockdown and hatch day. I hate to toss the questionable eggs if there might be *life* in them- is there any harm leaving them in "just in case"? None of them smell bad...

 

[Arielle]

LEave them in. You will have time to check on them in the days after hatch time. I"ve beeen wrong abut a few, so unless they are clear, they stay, or unless they smell. Give them another week before culling and opening. I have opened marans a week after hatch date and it was still alive. Marans are hard to evealuate.

 

[Kadra]

Okay, thanks Arielle- I feel better. This is my first time doing this.

 

[Arielle]

I remember my first times--- unbeleivably stressful. Good luck.