Is there life in these eggs?

[bekaboom]

It's been years since I have candled eggs. YEARS. So I need a refresher course. I have googled and googled and but wanted some opinions. All of these eggs were given to us and the lady who have them to us kept thme in her fridge! That alone made me think they wouldn't do very well. But she said she does it all of the time and she hatches chicks constantly. Anyway, I'm confused by the "blood ring of death" and regular veins in the eggs and just would love some opinions here. Each picture is a different egg. And all eggs have been in the incubator for 6 days.

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[nchls school]

Maybe my eyes are getting old like the rest of me. I do not see a blood ring; I see a live, developing embryo in each picture.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Can only see 3 pics of eggs, but those are all healthy, developing embryos so far... a blood ring will circle the egg usually close to the air cell edge, and be much brighter red and distinct...

Many people incubate eggs from the fridge, in fact there's a thread here devoted to people incubating store bought fertile eggs from Trader Joe's...

 

[bekaboom]

Ok great. Maybe we aren't seeing things! I tried to upland more pictures but so far it's not letting me.

 

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[caesargirl]

They look good to me! Keep this updated, I'm incubating refrigerated duck eggs and would love to see how someone else is doing!! Here's a chart to help!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

It's been years since I have candled eggs. YEARS. So I need a refresher course. I have googled and googled and but wanted some opinions. All of these eggs were given to us and the lady who have them to us kept thme in her fridge! That alone made me think they wouldn't do very well. But she said she does it all of the time and she hatches chicks constantly. Anyway, I'm confused by the "blood ring of death" and regular veins in the eggs and just would love some opinions here. Each picture is a different egg. And all eggs have been in the incubator for 6 days.

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I see developing eggs. (It's easier to see when you candle down into the egg from the air cell.) Are these chicken eggs or duck eggs??? There's a great candling thread for CHICKEN eggs right here on BYC: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation It's a great source for comparison.

 

[bekaboom]

These are chicken eggs. Some are bantam and some are Easter eggs (they were green) and then some brown eggs and some white eggs. It was just kind of a mixture the lady gave us. All chicken though. I'll keep you updated!