Not sure if eggs are fertile

[SilkiesRcool]

Hello I was wondering if it was possible my Easter eggers weren't actually being bred. I have a silkie rooster and Easter eggers (non bantam). I've seen him mount so I'm not sure if he can't reach or what. My hen started sitting on 8 eggs the sixteenth and I candled yesterday. The positive silkie eggs from her have veins and you can tell something is happening. The Easter egger eggs I can just see the yolk it might be darker then normal but the eggs are green and blue so I don't think they are. Any advice is appreciated thank you all.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Do you have ee eggs that you didn't set? Crack a couple of those open and examine the germinal disc

 

[SunHwaKwon]

1. Get a brighter light.

2. If you crack open some eggs (not the ones being incubated) you can check your fertility rate. Infertile eggs will just have a white dot, fertilized eggs will have a ring around the dot (bullseye).

 

[SilkiesRcool]

Ok I'll crack some open after I get home and I'm just using my iPhone flashlight so I'm not sure if that's to bright or not bright enough

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Not bright enough if you can't really see into the eggs.

 

[SilkiesRcool]

The white ones I can see veins and such but the green eggs I can just see a dark circle in the egg which I'm pretty sure is the yolk and I can see the air cells. And like how bright cause I don't want to hurt the chicks inside with to bright of a light

 

[Ridgerunner]

So those are two weeks along. You should mostly be seeing a blob in the bottom with the air cell in the top, though the eggs won't be so dark at the bottom as they will be in a few days.

I also have blue and green eggs. It can be pretty difficult to clearly see in them even with a fairly strong light. There are some instructions on how to build a good candler to help, but don't do anything drastic, like toss the eggs, based on candling. Not your first time. It's possible bacteria can get in any egg and cause it to explode or weep a nasty fluid, but don't depend on candling to help you find those. Sniff them. If they stink like rotten eggs they are, so toss them. Otherwise leave them alone. In all the years I've been doing this I've only had eggs go bad under a broody hen one time, and that was after an egg broke in the nest.

 

[SilkiesRcool]

Ok I wasn't gonna throw the eggs I was gonna wait and see what hatches and what doesn't the white ones I know are good so whenever they hatch I was gonna wait probably a weeks for the others to see if anything else hatches and if not toss them if I don't see anything. First time hatching also so I have no experience

 

[AlleysChicks]

My EE eggs I incubated awhile back took longer to see any veining. They were blue and green. I could see veins about day 10. I use my iPhone light and a actual candler.

 

[SilkiesRcool]

Ok thank you all I'm just new to this and thought it would be cool to hatch some since she decided to start sitting. So can you buy candler or do I need to make one?