How far along is this Guinea egg?! Need help!!

[nchls school]

I think it's dead or never was alive to begin with

This one is harder to judge. It definitely was alive and started to develop. Just looking at the pictures isn't enough but if you see things floating and the egg sloshes-it has died. Just by looking I can not be certain as the picture is not clear enough.

 

[Cowgirl1238]

Okay thank you so much! Yeah I don't have a very good flashlight for the goose egg, it has a very thick shell.

And thanks MeepBeep!!

 

[nchls school]

I beg to differ... My guinea eggs all hatch around day 26 and I regularly have air cells that size on day 24-26...

Not saying it's alive, you should be able to clearly see shadowy movement on the inner membrane of the air cell separating the keet from the air cell as that point if it's still viable...

I guess we will differ then as I have not seen a normal chick hatch from an egg with this type of air cell.

 

[MeepBeep]

I believe the larger aircells are common on 28 day eggs vs 21 day eggs, at least they have been for me... I regularly see large aircells on peafowl, guinea fowl and ducks, chicken eggs rarely get that big though...

In fact here is a duck egg with a large air-cell in my incubator that just pipped within the hour...

 

[Cowgirl1238]

I'll try and get some better pictures of the questionable egg later!

 

[MeepBeep]

I'll try and get some better pictures of the questionable egg later!

Pictures are not really going to help, you need to look for movement and make sure it's not 'gravitational' movement as you rotate the egg, look for rapid movements...

 

[Cowgirl1238]

No rapid movement

It looks very strange on the inside. Why does it look like this?? Other than it being dead, I mean.

 

[nchls school]

Once the embryo dies it starts to break down/decay-bacteria.

 

[nchls school]

I believe the larger aircells are common on 28 day eggs vs 21 day eggs, at least they have been for me... I regularly see large aircells on peafowl, guinea fowl and ducks, chicken eggs rarely get that big though...

In fact here is a duck egg with a large air-cell in my incubator that just pipped within the hour...

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No rapid movement

It looks very strange on the inside. Why does it look like this?? Other than it being dead, I mean.



I do not see that these two air cells are the same. Enough debating.

 

[Cowgirl1238]

So that's why it looks so weird? Like the parts that look like gooey stuff ran down them?