Dropped an egg when candling, was it viable? pics

[chickenwhisperer123]

Well I wouldnt feel bad at all about it!
Just remember how how much worse you would have felt if it would have dropped 2 days before hatch.

 

[ChicksR4Me]

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That had to be horrible! It's amazing how we feel responsible for this life we are trying to grow.

 

[chicklady63]

It's difficult for me to tell exactly, but I think that may just be the sort of material that can occassionally be enclosed in an egg from a bit of tearing of the hen's reproductive tract as the egg passes along before the shell forms around it. I believe in a viable egg there would have been more actual fresh blood. This looks somewhat more brownish, (like the material I mention above does in an egg), to me than the actual embyros I've seen. I have accidentally cracked them open in a frying pan not realizing that I had missed collecting one for a few days and you can see the developing chick moving about rather like a little heart beating. (Not a fun experience at all and I felt terrible!) I have dropped a fertile, developing egg and it started to seep bleed immediately when it hit the ground.
I think you should not feel so bad - it doesn't look like a living embryo to me.

 

[ChicksR4Me]

Thank you chicklady and thanks all of you for your responses. I think I'm going to stop messing with them so much and wait about a week before I try to candle again.

 

[chicklady63]

Well, good luck. Sometimes I slightly dampen my fingers with warm water before I take the eggs out to candle. It seems to give me a little more "gripping power".

 

[mamaginabean]

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what she said.

I'm pretty much the clumsiest person ever, so my husband was right there helping me every time we candled Good luck with your hatch!

 

[tonini3059]

I learned the hard way also I went to throw out an egg that I thought was bad, it hardly had any veining and i never saw movement,,and whn I cracked it open it was still alive. We all have these live and learn experiences that suck...badly!!

 

[ChicksR4Me]

I know I candled early and was clumbsy but shouldn't I be able to see blood vessels that look like a spider on day 3?

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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It depends on how good your candler is and how good you are at seeing what you are looking for...and the color of the eggs, the brightness or darkness of the room you are in...so many things really. Yes, in a dark room with a good candler and a great eye for those tiny veins, you can see them on day 3. Most people wait longer, however.

 

[ChicksR4Me]

I just used a heat lamp with a floresent light bulb in it. Cut an egg shape in some foil and wrapped it over the dome of the light. put the egg on the hole and turned the lights off in the room. I didn't see any veins in any of the eight eggs. I could see the yolk shadow is all.