Can you incubate them? Yes. What effect will them being refrigerated a day have? Who knows. It is very possible you will have a good hatch rate. It is also possible the hatch rate may be lower than if they had been stored at room temperature. It is impossible to say for sure one way or the other, but I'd think your odds of getting most to hatch that would hatch anyway are real good since it was only one day.
Like most of the recommendations on here, the suggestions on how to store them are guidelines, not absolute laws of nature. Even if you follow them exactly, there is no guarantee of perfect success. If you violate some, there is no guarantee of total dismal failure. Many of us, including me, violate some of them and still do OK. It depends on what you violate and how badly you violate it, but sometimes you'll be amazed at how strong the life force is. Following the guidelines as best you can improves your odds of success. That's all it is. Improving your odds.
The temperature in your refrigerator is not constant. There are some areas that are warmer and some that are cooler. In the heat of summer, some people turn the thermostat up a bit, store hatching eggs in the warmer areas, and do better than if they had stored the eggs on the kitchen counter. You don't hve to do everything perfect, just do them the best you can to improve your odds.
As far as candling, it depends on your set-up, how good your eyes are, and how dark brown the eggs are. You do get better with experience. Sometimes you can see development at 4 to 5 days, but not necessarily in all the eggs. I've made mistakes at 7 days and my eggs are a medium brown, not real dark. Seven days is normally my first candling. I mark them at that time but I don't toss any. Most of the time I can see if an egg is developing then pretty well, but I've had real nice chicks hatch from eggs I thought were not developing at seven days. For me, patience and caution is the way to go when candling.
Like most of the recommendations on here, the suggestions on how to store them are guidelines, not absolute laws of nature. Even if you follow them exactly, there is no guarantee of perfect success. If you violate some, there is no guarantee of total dismal failure. Many of us, including me, violate some of them and still do OK. It depends on what you violate and how badly you violate it, but sometimes you'll be amazed at how strong the life force is. Following the guidelines as best you can improves your odds of success. That's all it is. Improving your odds.
The temperature in your refrigerator is not constant. There are some areas that are warmer and some that are cooler. In the heat of summer, some people turn the thermostat up a bit, store hatching eggs in the warmer areas, and do better than if they had stored the eggs on the kitchen counter. You don't hve to do everything perfect, just do them the best you can to improve your odds.
As far as candling, it depends on your set-up, how good your eyes are, and how dark brown the eggs are. You do get better with experience. Sometimes you can see development at 4 to 5 days, but not necessarily in all the eggs. I've made mistakes at 7 days and my eggs are a medium brown, not real dark. Seven days is normally my first candling. I mark them at that time but I don't toss any. Most of the time I can see if an egg is developing then pretty well, but I've had real nice chicks hatch from eggs I thought were not developing at seven days. For me, patience and caution is the way to go when candling.
