Air Sacs?

[laurenseggs]

Hi,

I have 4 hens and one little rooster as pets. I live in the city and everything. Well, I decided to try to hatch 4 eggs and hopefully get at least 2 chicks.
I'm not too sure of the exact amount of days one of the hens has been laying on the eggs because they're at different rates.
Her own eggs I want to say have at least been laid on for about 2 weeks or more. However, the air sacs on both eggs are HUGE. And I've turned one
of them around while candling and the liquid (yoke, whatever) kind of moves around, but the dark spot at the bottom stays still. Any ideas? Are they fertile?



I tried to post a pic but the board error says I cannot. Sorry...

 

[laurenseggs]

 

[aveca]

If it looks like that, then it needs to be removed

If you could get a few good candeling pics, the expert hatchers in here can tell you lots...by the time the chick hatches the air cells should be 1/3 of the egg space..if they have small air cells and too much liquid they can drown..I just had one hatch under broody..the air cell was also huge,nothing like that thou. and she did a better job than I do with the incubator..that egg was clean when the chick came out . I could see the beak pushing up through the membrane .I couldnt beleive how huge the air cell had gotten but like I said it was a clean hatch not a drop if anything inside that shell..you might have an infertile egg or 2 under there..did you mark the eggs? or maybe you didnt know when she started sitting them..boy you'll know it when you pick up one with a baby..you can see them in there especially after 10 days. Move your light around from top to bottom to side..We use the brinsea cadeler..you can see every vein except in very dark eggs. there is pretty much no mistaking a baby in an egg..it shouldnt look like that picture. Im really suprised it didnt go bad at some point and explode or smell very bad.. cant you upload a pic through uploads? maybe the site was updating at the time you were trying to upload..

 

[aveca]

It should look like this

http://www.eggincubator.biz/assets/images/photos-in-passage/Air Sac Development.jpg

 

[laurenseggs]

Thank you!

Wow, thats gross. I'll for sure move it away then. Her's both feel very light, as if nothing's in there. I guess I'm not smart enough to realize thats no chick?

The other hens eggs, that the same hen is laying on, are different. Inside them, the air sac is not nearly as large as the other egg. I'll post another drawing until I take real pics.


Also, if a chick is developing, should any of the liquid not bemoving around? Or the yoke? Should everything be still when your candling and turning the egg around?

 

[kaitlyn_rae2003]

Quote:
THANK YOU!!!!

I really needed that diagram! thank u thank u thank u!

 

[laurenseggs]

This is what one of the other eggs looks like. I want to estimate about 9 plus days?
I can't see any viens. But maybe my light isn't that great. But I do see this:

 

[just2rosey]

I found this thread to be very helpful, it has excellent pics of candled eggs from every day of incubation its very educational, and even a couple of video links. Good Luck!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876