Can anyone tell me what I am looking at?(pics)

[Poulets De Cajun]

If you are referring the the last picture being "spotted," what you are looking at is the inconsistencies on the shell structure. That 'look' is common in calcium difficient birds. The shells appear spotty under candeling light.

 

[Fudgie]

RightFromtheStartDoula must sit on hands MUST SIT ON HANDS...Don't touch the bator....Candle on day 10 and 16 and only looook at the eggs from the viewing window. DON'T touch the eggs. Please step away from the bator!

Boy have we all been here! From experience, really don't mess with them any more than you have to.

 

[chicklady63]

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Do those type eggs usually hatch as well as ones that are not so porous, spotty, lacking in calcium, etc.? (I ask because I just got some rather expensive show-quality Cochin eggs that are almost all like that. My own hens don't have that quality to their shell. I'm a little worried.)

 

[wixie]

I am new at this but someone gave me advise yesterday that I thought good, they said to use one of those LED lights to candle and they work much better. I am going out tonight to look at them, mine are under the chickens and I took them in, they just showed up at my house. It is likely the eggs are duds unless they have been visiting the neighbors rooster about 1/4 mile up the road! And they are all free range, so it is possible. Wish you the best, I think this is all so exciting!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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I dont know honestly. I've never paid attention to it, and just incubated everything. I've not kept track of the hatch rate of them.

I do know that when my Silkies had a problem with it last summer, I fed crushed oyster shell and it cleared up within a few weeks.