check the pics of my poor chick embryo.. are they alive or dead ones??

[TriciaHowe]

I think also if you google "egg candling" you will find a lot of pictures you can reference. Once you get the hang of it candling is very easy and fast. I can tell within seconds if an egg is ok or not while incubating. I don't think I would open any live eggs if it were me. Seems like a waste. Candling is much less harmful. I personally don't use cardboard I just have a bright led flashlight (think mini maglight size) and put it to the big end of the egg. I can see fine into my eggs.
Good luck with the rest of your hatch!!!!

 

[herfrds]

I used a 3 battery Mag light before I got a candler. I wrapped the light end with tin foil and made a small hole at that end it worked.

Something else when I turned the eggs I would watch and see if the chick moved. Even when one of my birds were brooding on some eggs. If the egg was warm and I gently turned it and waited and the chick didn't move, I would mark it and check it again the next day. Still no movement I would figure it was dead.

 

[vkp23]

They def have been dead for a while. It looks like one of the chicks has the same problem one of mine has. Luckily mine lived to hatch and is doing fine. But it looks like there was a defect in the beak of one of your chicks. I had a chick die once on me that was at about that stage and the beak was much longer. They might have had a defect of some sort.

 

[silkiechicken]

Oh yeah, long dead...

The reason it does not smell like other dead things is because the inside of an egg is sterile. Bacteria is what makes dead things "stink" while enzymatic break down of the chick in a sterile environment will happen, but is very slow and won't smell like bacterial based decay. The veins aren't everywhere because the blood has all clotted and settled to the bottom. Those birds didn't make it past about day 10, Hamburger Hamilton stage 37/38 or so.

 

[Bency]

thanq all...

can you guys figure the reason of the death of chick embryo??

Actually, none of the 9 eggs hatched.. if its because of the defect in the beak, would it be the same with all?

Actually, right next to the place where the hen was brooding over her eggs, we have the motor for bringing bore water to our water tank.. n it causes vibration to the place where the hen is.. could this be the reason for the death of the embryo??

pls tell me the reason, if u could figure out, 'cause i should see to that nothin goes wrong next time...

 

[Scoop]

 

[Happy Chooks]

I don't know, but I'm sorry they didn't hatch for you. Is your hen still trying to sit?

 

[Bency]

okie...

yeah, she was sitting over her eggs until i disposed them today...

 

[bbowen]

I'm new to all this and have never hatched any chicks but taking embryos out of an egg just sounds like a bad idea. Won't they die? I mean if it wasn't dead ( I know it was, I'm saying if it wasn't, cause the OP didn't know) when you took it out of the egg surely it would die soon after.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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They were long past their hatch date.