2 questions, how old was this hatching egg, and would have it hatched?

[SGH]

This is a shipped hatching egg. Upon candleing it looked scrambled and I could see a dark spot. Since I didn’t have room for it in my incubator, I decided to open it.

How old was this egg? It’s obviously not fresh if it was developing…

Can a scrambled egg hatch if it would have went in the Bator?

 

[HollowOfWisps]

That egg was developing normally with healthy active veins on day 4 I would say. When the yolks are heated in the incubator and you crack them open they will always break apart scrambling like what you are seeing. For shipped eggs I always let them settle for 24 hours room temp before incubation, wait until day 8/9 to candle because at that point if they are alive they should have fairly noticeable strong veins or if they are dying off you should see veins receding. Sometimes shipped eggs don’t look perfect when candling, but as long as they are developing I leave them be. I have had shipped eggs with saddled air cells and wonky air cells hatch just fine. I let nature take its course.

 

[SGH]

Thank you.

The egg was never put in my incubator. It was like this when it arrived. They were shipped express and I received them overnight. One egg was broke upon arrival even though being packaged very well. A few other eggs next to the broken one in the carton looked scrambled to me when candleing.

I did let them rest 32 hours before putting them in the bator.

My incubator holds 22, and I had 23. Since I didn’t have room for it in the incubator, I opened one that I thought was bad / scrambled.

 

[Altairsky]

It looks like an healthy egg to me, day 4 I would say. Is it possible that it developed at room temperature or during transport? How hot is where you live? It is rare but if it's really hot fertile eggs can develop for a while even at room temperature.

 

[SGH]

They were in 90-100 degree weather. So does this mean that some will hatch sooner than 21 days?

 

[SilverBirds]

They were in 90-100 degree weather. So does this mean that some will hatch sooner than 21 days?

If they started developing during transit as this one did, then yes, they may hatch earlier than you anticipate.

 

[MountainWoman73]

I also think it was on about day 4.

I have shipped eggs in an incubator right now and I wondered if some of them might be a little farther along than we think due to summer shipping temperatures. Either that's what happened or your source doesn't collect their eggs every day.