Are my eggs full of bacteria? :(

[Katy]

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And they did look completely different when lighted from the top than they did from the bottom and side. Good thing I found that out before I tossed them all. I would have felt so bad.
Turkey eggs take 1 week longer to develop than chickens. This is what one of my 7 or 8 day turkey eggs look like.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/82189_dscn2411.jpg

That one looks good, but I still say that you've got at least several in the first group of pictures that do not not look good at all.

 

[Katy]

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Hopefully not half as bad as the people who confidently stated they were rotten quitters and should be tossed before they exploded in your bator. This forum would be a whole lot better if people refrained from presenting guesses and personal opinions as if they were basic facts. I mean, what's wrong with saying, "In my opinion..." or "If I was you I think I might..." or "I'm not 100% sure but..." or " You might want to ask someone with more experience than me..."

Just saying...

Glad some of your eggs look like they're developing well. Good luck with them!

I stand by what I said based on her first group of pictures.....in my incubator those eggs would be tossed....which is what I said. Numbers 3 & 4 I think it was, might get another few days but the other three do not have any veining that I could see nor do they look to have enough developing matter in them for an egg 1/2 way thru the incubation period.

 

[jmmre31]

I've never done turkey eggs, but 1 & 2 don't look good to me. The rest, at least, have nice looking veins.

Good Luck!

 

[al6517]

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If it were day 5-7 yes, day 14 no. They are quitters.

X2 at day 14 it would be hard to see through the egg and very dark with chick mass, sorry but they quit and I don't really see any sign of bacteria which normally can be seen at this stage.

AL

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Just candled 25 turkey eggs last night and from your day 14 photos I'd keep all of them. They look to be developing to me.

 

[al6517]

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Hopefully not half as bad as the people who confidently stated they were rotten quitters and should be tossed before they exploded in your bator. This forum would be a whole lot better if people refrained from presenting guesses and personal opinions as if they were basic facts. I mean, what's wrong with saying, "In my opinion..." or "If I was you I think I might..." or "I'm not 100% sure but..." or " You might want to ask someone with more experience than me..."

Just saying...

Glad some of your eggs look like they're developing well. Good luck with them!

I stand by what I said based on her first group of pictures.....in my incubator those eggs would be tossed....which is what I said. Numbers 3 & 4 I think it was, might get another few days but the other three do not have any veining that I could see nor do they look to have enough developing matter in them for an egg 1/2 way thru the incubation period.

Very well said, I have hatched litteraly thousands of eggs and if it were me this is what I were to think. I think the OP was looking for advice when she posted to begin with, anyway good luck whatever you decide to do.

AL

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I really think the air sack is all that people should look at when candling especially your first 5 to 10 hatches. Trying to figure out what you should an should not be seeing in the rest of the egg is not something new people need to deal with. Chickens dont candle an they do fine. I smell eggs an only cull eggs that stink. It has worked well for me. I'm pretty sure its how hens cull eggs.

Smelling the incubator every day an smelling the eggs if the incubator stinks is much less stressful than candling which is about like trying to read a crystal ball for a beginner.

 

[Terri O]

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AMEN!

 

[dretd]

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100% agree

 

[sweeterdeeter42]

To all who say that they all quit, did you not read my post how when candled from the top, 3-5 have pulsating vein systems and a moving live embryo in them?

And day 14 for turkeys is pretty much equivalent to day 9 in chickens. Since it takes one week longer, it would be behind a chicken egg in development aprox. 2 1/2 days each week, meaning that day 14 would be about day 9 in chicken embryo appearance. or if you just put their development back an entire week, I suppose that they would be about day 7 in chick development. There arent hardly any turkey egg candling pictures online or anything I can use to compare my eggs to. I cant find a chart of poult development anywhere online to compare with the kajillion chick development charts I could find either, but this is an example of the difference in development. These pictures are from this site, http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs32.htm
Also, does anyone have any idea what happened to #1 and 2 in the pictures in my original post and why there is the dark outline around the yolk in #1?

"Four-day-old turkey embryo.

This photo is included to serve as a reference in determining the developmental age of normal embryos. Note the small, centrally located embryo and the developing blood vessels."

"Four-day-old normally developing chicken - candled.

Note the more advanced circulatory system than in the turkey embryo of equal age. The dark area near the center of the egg is the embryo; the radiating lines are the blood vessels of the extra-embryonic membranes."