Day 17 and I candled. The last of the strange looking eggs is labelled #4.
The other eggs in the batch look good, large embryos, right on track, good webs of veins throughout the entire egg, not a whole bunch of space left that isn't taken up by the embryos.
And #4....well....it's very odd.
At first glance I saw 2 very distinct shapes, same as usual, but now one of these shapes is much larger. But both were moving. There seems to be a break in continuity between the shapes, which makes me wonder if they are still two different beings.
The strangest thing about this egg is the lack of good veins throughout. There are very thin veins, but only on one half of the egg, the same side as the shapes. And whatever is living inside is nowhere as big as the other embryos.
The other peculiar thing about #4 is that there is something very much alive in there despite it all. There was LOTS of movement when candling.
I have a staggered hatch in there, these guys are due Saturday, and there are a dozen others due next Wednesday. I'm going to remove the later batch and put them in the other bator while these guys hatch. I think, fingers crossed, if #4 makes it to lockdown, I'll slip it in with the later hatch as it seems nowhere near the right size yet.
Before anyone asks, I didn't mix them up, #4 is a brown egg from my flock, and next week's are white eggs from a friend.
Stay tuned. I'm very interested in what's going to happen, and worse case scenario, break out and see what I've been growing....