*CHICKS are HERE!!!* Egg Candling Pics: Progression Though Incubation

[CayleeMarie03]

Thanks for posting this. It really help me!!!

 

[Skeetergirl]

Sorry wrong thread!

 

[Brwight]

So, last thurs, i went to a small lake that has ducks as residents and i happened upon an egg, it was still warm and actually had teeth marks any (they didnt puncture) I searched for any nests i could put into, but i couldn't find any, so i took it home. I didnt have the heart to leave it. After research i got in the proper incubation care and even candled it. It's has a red spot and a good air sac. I have been rotating it and even put cups of water next to it. Well, it's been a week and i candled it, the red is only on one side and it seems to have gotten a little bigger, even the air sac has. Although i don't see any heart or veins! I have researched everything but everyone says something different and it's hard to say how old the egg really is b/c i don't know how old it was when i got it, i just know i have had it for 7 days. So, is it fertile, or just not developed enough yet?

 

[silkiechicken]

Looks like a duck egg and at 7 days, should be 1/4th of the way through incubation.... thus it appears to be a dud.

 

[Chookchook5050]

Awesome post - thank you!!
I'm on day 22 and really worried that my eggs aren't going to hatch as there are no signs of pipping I've been walking on egg shells all week... so to speak! How many days do you wait before you give up on them? I'm thinking after Day 24 it might be too late... I'll be really sad if these don't wake up!! Dang...

 

[silkiechicken]

I usually call it quits on a hatch at the end of day 24. All my healthy birds generally pop out by the end of day 22.

 

[Chookchook5050]

I usually call it quits on a hatch at the end of day 24. All my healthy birds generally pop out by the end of day 22.

I have one hatched and appears to be healthy!!!! Not sure what's going on with the other 3... No signs of pipping even.

 

[MagicMarcy66]

Chookchook5050 I am so hoping they all hatch.

Silkiechicken, this is truly an amazing thread you posted. It has been so informative and as an ultrasound tech I just absolutely love seeing inside the eggs, watching the chicks form and wiggle about. Thank you so much for taking the time in taking the pictures, posting them and the video's. I am now feeling more confident in my up and coming hatch day next week, this will be my first. Today is day 15 for my eggs and I candled them and they are getting darker and its not so easy to see through the egg any more and I was a little worried, but there is still fetal chick movement which I was so excited to see. They are under my broody hen and she is doing a wonderful job at incubating and tending to them.

Lisa

 

[silkiechicken]

@Chookchook5050

Congrats on the baby!!! Hope you get at least one more!

@MagicMarcy66

Thank you! I am glad the post is informational and you find it useful. Good luck on your hatch!

 

[MagicMarcy66]

How's the hatch going? Congratulation and how is the one chick that hatched? I sure hope its doing well and thriving.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that more have hatched.



Lisa