It probably won't work, but I don't see any harm in trying (waste of eggs/time/incubator space/electricity, but not a big enough deal to matter to most people.)Yes iv come across this info/word for fertilised eggs without rooster which is why I thought why not just try and hatch them.. if it is a male only then sweet il cross that to my new breeds of egg layers off another source..
Regarding color:
The golden comets are a sex link, a cross between parents where the male chicks basically hatch white and the females hatch red. The genetics in the parents have to be set up a certain way. You cannot use a sex link chicken to make another sex link because the genetics are not set up as they need to be.
The commercial egg laying sex links are the result of millions of dollars spent under the direction of poultry science and genetics professionals to develop the parents of a hen that will lay very well. They do not simply cross one breed with another to get the commercial hybrids. They spend years using selective breeding to develop two separate flocks to breed the fathers of those hybrids. They develop two separate flocks to breed the mothers of those hybrids.
Some golden comets are commercial egg laying hybrids, going through years of development. These lay like commercial egg laying hybrids because they are. Some golden comets are crosses of regular breeds, like a New Hampshire rooster over a White Rock hen. These usually lay pretty well since both parent breeds tend to lay well but they are not the commercial hybrids.
37.5 celsius is commonly listed as the correct temperature to incubate chicken eggs.
So I managed to fashion a candle lighting torch out of my head torch n wrapping some black bags and tape around it to do the job so I cud take some photos with my phone that was using to candle em before, it has been about 7 or 8 days now since i started incubating, first is the eggs just kept in cold set of draws no viens just clear with a dark air sack at end if that's what it's called? Then the 2 iv been incubating with networks of viens it seems after I found the white dot with ring around it In My yolk from my hens.. So what do you make of that then??? Fertile eggs without a rooster for 2 months after all???
I'm not very good at candling, and even worse at interpreting photos of candled eggs, so I can't say for sure. The real proof will be if the eggs hatch, or if you crack them open and see obvious development.
Well I'm a third of the way there nearly half way there now might as well just keep em incubating ay mate? Do U see the difference in the pics of the 2 incubated eggs tho compared to the eggs that look totaly clear from the cold draw?
It might be the fault of what screen I'm using to see the photos, but I don't actually see veins in any of them. For the incubated eggs, I think i'm seeing an overall darker appearance (maybe thicker shells or darker brown shells, maybe something inside the eggs), and I see light spots where the shell is probably thinner.
Well I wud say it's a bit funny that it's only the 2 eggs I chose to incubate that have a "thicker shell' if it ain't veins or development wudnt U say? As all the others in the cold draw every single one of them is totally different.. completely clear can see all way thru every single one of them out the cold draw and see the dark air sack at end of egg, where as my incubated 2 there's clearly a dark network of something happening inside those 2.. I can't see thru the only 2 I'm incubating but I can see perfectly clearly thru every single one of the eggs in the cold draw... The incubated 2 are deffo different to every single one the others in cold draw iv just checked every single one of them.. all clear can see thru every one of em n not able to with the 2 that I'm incubating...
