New to Chickens in WA

[ronmauldin]

Welcome from the Ocean State!

 

[gander007]

Alright Sarah,

great to have you joining the BYC flock

BYC has a very useful learning center

Good luck with the incubator ...

I have popped out many a chick this way ....




My favorite way is to have one of the Mamas do the job for me ....

gander007

 

[slagoon]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone.
Unfortunately, today I have some bad news. This morning while I was turning my eggs I smelled something like hard boiled eggs. I sniffed each egg till I found the culprit. Today is day 9 so knowing I should see a smallish black spot it it was viable I candeled it. Instead I saw something like this (sorry can't get low light images with phone which was all that was available)

I knew in my sad little heart that the two signs pointed to a dead egg so I did a postmortem. This is the result (which made my whole kitchen stink btw)

I think this is the only stinky egg and will do official candling tomorrow for the rest...so I assume this is an isolated incident.

Do you guys think the egg was probably scrambled in transit or is this an indication that I am doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance!

 

[slagoon]

Ok, more sad news....

I think I may have all dead eggs.
can someone give a second/third/fourth opinion?
In my post above I showed the results of a stinky egg that was as black when candeled as a day 17 or 18 egg. I have more that look like this. These are all taken on day 9!!!
1

1 2

3 4

5 6


7 8

9

So my thoughts are that 4 and 5 COULD be viable but the rest are dead.
Next question....
Is this anything I could have done to cause this? my incubator was at 38ºC steady except for when I opened to turn eggs 3x per day. I also kept one channel filled and the humidity showed to be ~60 at most times. My eggs did take 6 days to get to me. Before I request money back/backfill eggs I want to make sure that it isn't my fault...
Thanks in advance guys!

 

[Pinkaboo]

Its so hard to tell at day nine, to me 4/5 don't look fertile and the rest could be ok!
I find candeling at night best when its really dark and take time to look for the slightest movement
I candelled mine at day seven and they looked similar to yours
I thought they we all dead but they weren't

 

[slagoon]

Hmmm, well I did these in the bathroom with the door closed so it was pitch black....what I'm concerned with is most of them look like a GIANT black glob that takes up 90% of the egg....looks from pics I've seen like the eggs from much later in the process.

 

[slagoon]

We had 3 successful hatchings!!!!!! yay. Not great odds but with a LONG shipping time and possible mishandling by USPS I'm happy to get that many. We had at least 5 no-starters with one of those rotten. Two looked to have started developing late and I've not yet given up on them since I think I saw them move when I candled on day 18 but they looked like day 10 development... time will tell.
Anyway Pictures!

 

[Amberjem]

hi welcome