Help! Dead embryo?

[CherriesBrood]

I agree with TKFGal. I'd leave it until it got smelly or obviously dead. Smell in the incubator often!!

It looks like a dark dense shell, so make sure you are candling in complete darkness, using as bright a light as possible (fresh batteries help alot!) and getting good "connection" between your light and the egg. Do you even see an air cell??

Also, don't shake the egg, but does it feel "sloshy" when you handle it? Hard to explain, but hope that makes sense.

What breed are they? Looks kinda like my golden comet eggs, they are some of the toughest to candle!

I also have chicks due in 7-8 days, so good luck to us both!

I just candled it with my brightest light I did notice one vein so that's a very good sign! There is an air cell, but I see a lot of pores more so than normal. It isn't sloshy it just feels heavier than all my other eggs including ones bigger than it. Right now I'm thinking it's alive so I think I'll leave it alone and see what happens.

This egg along with two others are from my salmon favorelle girls. I also have blue Cochins, silver spangled Hamburgs and a white leghorn.

That's awesome! Good luck to you, and thank you for your help.

 

[WVduckchick]

Oh wow, I'll be anxious to see these chicks next week! Please post some pics!

 

[CherriesBrood]

Oh wow, I'll be anxious to see these chicks next week! Please post some pics!

I will, thanks!

 

[CherriesBrood]

Update!
I'm very glad I did not take it out. It's a pipping. I expect that when I get home today it will be hatched!

 

[lovelyduckling]

That's wonderful! I really hope for the best! Good luck! Post pics pls!

 

[WVduckchick]

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[CherriesBrood]

It's a zipping!!! e We have four babies hatched and four more we are waiting on.

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

So glad it wasn't dead after all!

 

[WVduckchick]

Congrats!!

How many have hatched now?

 

[CherriesBrood]

I have seven that have hatched, including that one! Its kind of hard to get a picture. I'm waiting on one more, but I'm getting a bit worried because it's day 21 and it hasn't pipped yet. :/