Anyone Setting Eggs Tonight 3/31/2011 - Come join me if you like!

[MountainChickenMama]

Well, this morning I don't see the heartbeat, so now I am sad with you.....





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Mine were day 4 before I saw anything petunias212....don't give up hope...I was feeling the exact same way, but then to my surprise, I moved the flashlight around a little and found some veins....Have you tried candling from the top down or from the side?

 

[petunias212]

double poo!...

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[petunias212]

Mike, none of my Ameracauna eggs look like yours in the pic

mine all have a dark glob, forgot where I read that if the dark glob (which is the yolk) moves easily to the top, it's infertile....all my Ameracauna eggs have a dark glob that moves when i move the egg and no veining from anywhere - I'm not going to give up, hoping with the temp fluctuating as it has the first few days that, my hatching is just going at a slower rate - but i guess that's the gamble you take on shipped eggs - you never really know what you're getting...will I buy shipped eggs again? Only if I know the person personally and can drive or walk to get the eggs......

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Awesome....What day is that egg?? Mine look nothing like that for sure.

 

[artathart]

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Awesome....What day is that egg?? Mine look nothing like that for sure.


Did you see the pics of my day 4 eggs? https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=477647

I am right with you in every way. I have 8 Ameracauna as well and I should be able to see something in those but I do not. And I actually can see in my Maran eggs. The one picture in that link that I think might be fertile, Is actually a pretty dark Maran egg. I am sooooo dissapointed. Heart broken really. I know I candled early but I am not candling every day. I will wait and candle on day 7 since I know I cannot wait till day 10. Thank God I paid with a check for my eggs locally. I e-mailed the seller and he was not very nice either. This is what I e-mailed him

"It appears as though all but 2 of my eggs are not fertile. I candled this evening. I took pics and posted them to a forum to which I am a member and the general consensus if non of my eggs look viable/fertile. I will wait until day 10 and double check. If no more are fertile, May I please send you pics and pick up some more eggs?

Thanks"

And this was his response to me:


I assure you those eggs are fertile. As you saw when you picked up your eggs from my hatching room, I'm hatching about 400 chicks a week. If I had a fertility problem, I would know about it. The Marans, Welsummer and Ameraucana eggs are all too thick shelled and pigmented to rely on candling


I drove 45 mins for these eggs because he website seemed so nice and his farm was even nice. For the most part. He did NOT have 400 chicks when I was there so I dont know what he is talking about 75-100 tops. But whatever. I will wait a few more days and hope that they are in fact fertile. I am going to place a stop payment on the check if they are not because he does not seem like he would replace my $42 eggs for any reason. Plus the $15 in gas since gas is almost $4.00 a here. He just doesnt seem to care at all. Meanwhile, I am heart broken. I know he is full of poop because another forum member told me you can see in a Ameracauna egg for sure and that no shell is too thick to see thru. I am so sad :-(

 

[artathart]

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Awesome....What day is that egg?? Mine look nothing like that for sure.


Also, Mine are juist like yours. They all have a blob either in the center or in the fat end of the egg that moves when I move the egg just like a regular yolk.

 

[MikeS(erama)]

This early on the yolk still moves around in the egg. It isn't untill there is a lot more veining that the yolk is more stationary. I'll take and post a video of what an early growth egg will look like when you move it around. If you're seeing more than a yolk moving around and it looks like an air bubble, that's a broken air cell, and usually those won't develop, at least in my experience with them. Out of the 9 bantam Araucana eggs I have set, one had a broken air cell, and there was absolutely no growth.

 

[lceh]

You guys are a bad influence on me! I had decided not to candle until Day 7 at least, but DD and I couldn't resist. We have 6 Ameraucanas with definite veining (hooray!), 5 Ameraucana "maybes" (the shells are so dense on those I can't see anything), 2 possibly viable Silkies, and 6 Silkies that look like duds to me but we'll candle again in a few days.

You are right, I can tell this will be addictive. And the temp in the 'bator didn't drop at all!

 

[MountainChickenMama]

MikeS(erama) :

This early on the yolk still moves around in the egg. It isn't untill there is a lot more veining that the yolk is more stationary. I'll take and post a video of what an early growth egg will look like when you move it around. If you're seeing more than a yolk moving around and it looks like an air bubble, that's a broken air cell, and usually those won't develop, at least in my experience with them. Out of the 9 bantam Araucana eggs I have set, one had a broken air cell, and there was absolutely no growth.

Will be looking forward to the video....I wish I knew if my eggs were growing? I see veins in all 3 Americauna eggs, but I don't see the heartbeat in one that I saw it in last night and I don't see an embryo moving in it yet? It will be 5 days tonight....I can't see anything in my brown eggs though, LOL​

 

[petunias212]

I would love to see that video when you're able to post it...and appreciate the info..

I'm going to remain hopeful since it's so early...

MikeS(erama) :

This early on the yolk still moves around in the egg. It isn't untill there is a lot more veining that the yolk is more stationary. I'll take and post a video of what an early growth egg will look like when you move it around. If you're seeing more than a yolk moving around and it looks like an air bubble, that's a broken air cell, and usually those won't develop, at least in my experience with them. Out of the 9 bantam Araucana eggs I have set, one had a broken air cell, and there was absolutely no growth.​

 

[RachaelS]

I am on board, I set 12 Barnevelder eggs on April 1, so just a day later. This is my second hatch, my first was awful 1/12. This time I am not going to mess with them.