Day 6 - Are these all yolkers?

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Hey guys, this is my first hatch from my favorite Black Australorp hen, Sydney, and my great big, gorgeous rooster, Othello. I am kind of bummed here.

I see one egg looks pretty porous, and the rest...? I just don't see anything that looks like clear development. I thought I would be seeing blood vessels forming on at least *some* of these here. I set the eggs almost a week ago, last Sunday evening, so 5/19. (These were taken Saturday evening 5/25).

She had been with him several times before I took these, so I don't see why every single one would be not developing. I see plenty of bullseyes in the other girls' eggs, too, but I don't know if that necessarily means everything is working properly.

Any idea what's going on here? Or how I should be handling this differently? I have five more eggs of hers I've been collecting this past week, getting ready to set in my other incubator - just hoping for one more tomorrow morning for another batch of six. TIA!

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Sorry, I was trying to conserve space with the other kind of spoiler boxes. I guess I'm kind of rusty with this whole BYC thing! Lol

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

So of course there was no development there. It inset some more and sure enough I have three nice little eggs developing! The timer says they are on D-15. I set five more today, and I know four will need to be pulled. So I can see how it took two weeks for her old eggs to clear the cue, so to speak, and now she looks like we are in business!

I might try to get my egg fridge running and set another more full batch of 10-12 for the July 4th hatch date. That would be super fun!