Are these stupid eggs fertile or what ?! >:( How to candle?

[XxPandaxX]

These Whole Foods eggs are 76 hours into incubation (just over 3 days) and when I candle, I see NADA. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I see some things that look like veins, but how do I know that isn't the egg shell pattern? When I cracked one open today I looked at the shell and it had lines imprinted in it. I looked in a Kroger egg and it didn't look like that. But I also see no bullseye in the one I cracked open today. What will the veins look like? And when should they start showing up? The eggs have been steady in the 90's or 101 degrees. I can't tell what's inside there !! Someone PLEASE help me this is SUPER stressful. Idk whether to chuck them or not. The carton said Fertile right on the top !!

 

[sumi]

Maybe this'll help:

Egg Candling Pics: Progression Though Incubation

 

[dusky]

I think getting fertile eggs from a farmer's market would be far more reliable than eggs from Whole foods.. who knows how fresh they really are, or how cold they're kept! Plus you can ask the farmer to bring you fresh eggs, and hopefully they'll remember (unlike the guy I got 'fresh' farmer market eggs from recently.. ) Asides from my current batch of eggs, I've always had great luck with fresh eggs from the farmer market.

Also, 3 days might be a smidge too soon to definitely tell, I was only really sure one of the eggs I had was developing, then on the 6th day I upped the number to 6. I hear you on the weird shell thing though, one of the eggs had light poo smears on it.. but with these kind of marks they always stay in the same place and move with the shell as you examine it.

 

[XxPandaxX]

People hatch them all the time ! Plus I got them as soon as they were shipped in.. But I called in and got another order for FRIDAY with eggs from a local Amish farm with roosters in the hen house. The hens won't lay because of the HEAT, which is bad because the embryos might start ! I'll have to call them and ask tomorrow morning. HAHA !! Poo smears !

Yeah I gotta call the Amish farm and ask them if they can get some FRESH eggs that they HAVEN'T washed that are fertile, collected ASAP, refrigerated lightly for the heat wave and sent to Whole Foods. I'm sure those people are gonna hate me soon ! :')

 

[dusky]

Ohh neat, you guys get Amish Eggs! I live in Los Angeles so who knows where my local Whole Foods gets their fertile eggs.. :/ The whole foods here are pretty commercialized/foofoo, so I go to a local food co-op instead. Good luck!

 

[walkswithdog]

Now, see that? I've been hatching for YEARS and didn't know the AMISH laid eggs!

 

[XxPandaxX]

Since you know a lot, apparently (LOL.) could you tell me how to release a few degrees from a home made incubator ?!

 

[XxPandaxX]

and do still air incubators work ? Mine had a fan but it blew out ... :/