Dead Embryo....

[MyNameIs86]

Okay..
Today is Day 13th and I recandled them tonight (i'm slowing down on candling them...i used to candle morning and night and now i only candle night).

I have 2 eggs that aren't growing.
the embryos have no movement...no growth and it seems like one of the embryos got scrambled.

I decided to take pictures the best i could. this is what i got.


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not too sure if you can see it.
but the air sack hasn't grown since earlier this week. the embryo hasn't moved. compared to the other ones.
I saw a foot (or perhaps it was a beak) this evening which was very exciting 2 see.

wut is ur opinion about the egg above?

 

[bobbi-j]

I can't really tell anything by the picture, but I would suggest you slow down on the candling. The more you handle the eggs, the more chance there is of damaging them.

 

[MyNameIs86]

I did cut back on candling them.
I used to candle them morning and night. but now i candled 1x at night and leave them alone.
Today will be last time i candle until the 18th right before i do lock down.

but the 2 eggs that seem dead here are the symptoms

- they don't weigh as much as the rest
- they both have a blood vein around the middle of the egg
- the embryo's don't move
- the air sack hasn't grown
- the one egg the embryo looks like it got scrabbled and only moves when i move the egg itself.

compared to the rest of the eggs where there is movement, veins move / chick moves... it weighs more.

But what do i do with the eggs that seem dead? I don't want to run the chance of them exploding & ruin the other eggs.

 

[bobbi-j]

Yeah... by "cut back on candling", I meant cut back from candling every night, to once, maybe twice a week. The less you handle them the better. Take the dead ones out and throw them away. There is no point in keeping them in the incubator any longer.

 

[silkiechicken]

Yeah, just toss the duds.

If it's your first time hatching, just candle on day 5/6 and again on day 18 before you "lock down".

 

[MyNameIs86]

I just decided to crack open 1 of the dead eggs... if ya want to know what was inside go to my blog:

http://mk365projects.blogspot.com/2012/03/whats-in-bad-egg.html