Help!

[Purelychicks]

I’m incubating eggs but some are due to hatch in 10 days some today some in 16 days it’s because our hen sat on them and then ditched them and they smell dead how do I telll which ones died none of them have bloodlines but it smells fowl, rotten and my house smells like a dead animal..

 

[BeetaLiK]

The red blood ring - if you're candling the eggs and detect a red ring of blood around the embryo, unfortunately the embryo has deceased and should be removed immediately from the incubator.

 

[Yardmom]

At different stages you will see different things, but at all stages live chicks have veins that you can see when candling in a dark room.(as long as the shell is not to dark). Also bad eggs will be more running and the air sacks less stable.

 

[Purelychicks]

At different stages you will see different things, but at all stages live chicks have veins that you can see when candling in a dark room.(as long as the shell is not to dark). Also bad eggs will be more running and the air sacks less stable.

Thanks I pretty much figured out by the smell

 

[Sussex19]

You need to candle them, if there are no veins, no moment, and the whole egg contents swish around inside, than they are bad. If need be, you can post pics of them well being candled, and we can take look.

 

[fullgallop 55]

Anybody help
It is day 26 two eggs haven't hatched I have candled them I see some movement but it is hard too see as they have taken up the whole egg . I did the float test and they floated where the airsack was .
Help what do I do

 

[PaperChicken]

Anybody help
It is day 26 two eggs haven't hatched I have candled them I see some movement but it is hard too see as they have taken up the whole egg . I did the float test and they floated where the airsack was .
Help what do I do

They will float where the air sack is unless it is fresh then the air sack doesn't have enough bouyancy to float. That doesn't really tell you anything but how big the air sack is and an estimate on how old the egg is. Now if you put the egg in the water real still and then it moves, the chick is alive. Bad news is if there was an external pip in the egg, then you likely drowned the chick.

 

[Chickenlover2009]

If you candle them with a high quality candler, you should be able to see the beating heart.

 

[fullgallop 55]

They will float where the air sack is unless it is fresh then the air sack doesn't have enough bouyancy to float. That doesn't really tell you anything but how big the air sack is and an estimate on how old the egg is. Now if you put the egg in the water real still and then it moves, the chick is alive. Bad news is if there was an external pip in the egg, then you likely drowned the chick.

Ok so one egg was 21 days on the 18th and the other was 21 days on the 19th
There was no pip mark on them when I did the water test and it bobbed around the water and it was still .
I can rake a pic of when I candle them today if that will help
How long do you recon till I call it a day

 

[fullgallop 55]

If you candle them with a high quality candler, you should be able to see the beating heart.

Hey there
Unfortunately I don't have one of them