Is this one dead?

[yickenscarf23]

This was my best looking egg up until today. Had spider veins, a lil baby in the middle. Perfect. Today it appears as though half the egg is dark and half is light if that makes sense. The veins are less visible as well. Today is day 7. There is a very visible line where the color within the egg changes (not the air cell).

 

[BantyChooks]

This was my best looking egg up until today. Had spider veins, a lil baby in the middle. Perfect. Today it appears as though half the egg is dark and half is light if that makes sense. The veins are less visible as well. Today is day 7. There is a very visible line where the color within the egg changes (not the air cell). View attachment 1754809

Looks pretty typical for hand turned eggs. Can you still see the spider if you look at the fully red side?

 

[yickenscarf23]

Looks pretty typical for hand turned eggs. Can you still see the spider if you look at the fully red side?

Yes but it's quite faded compared to two days ago.

 

[BantyChooks]

Yes but it's quite faded compared to two days ago.

It usually becomes less prominent and turns into more of a blob as development progresses. Let me see if I have any pictures. It doesn't look dead to me in that image, but if it starts to look greyish or more like a gradient, then that would be cause for concern.

 

[yickenscarf23]

It usually becomes less prominent and turns into more of a blob as development progresses. Let me see if I have any pictures. It doesn't look dead to me in that image, but if it starts to look greyish or more like a gradient, then that would be cause for concern.

Ok thank you. It looks more like a tree than a spider now if that makes sense.

 

[yickenscarf23]

I've read a lot about blood rings and it does seem to have a ring of some kind

 

[BantyChooks]

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I've read a lot about blood rings and it does seem to have a ring of some kind

Hm, that angle doesn't look so good. I'd wait a few days and check again.

 

[yickenscarf23]

Ok I'll take one in a few days. I'm so attached to these little eggs. They are all I have left of their parents. It's my first time hatching eggs I feel like I'm in the incubator constantly to turn them they looked so darn good on day 5.

 

[007Sean]

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I've read a lot about blood rings and it does seem to have a ring of some kind

Doesn't look good to me! appears as if it's an early quitter.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'd wait a few more days. I threw out an egg like that and after I cracked the egg in two a little baby was moving around. I had killed it. I felt horrible, I always heard blood rings meant dead but it wasn't so. Just wait.