Not sure if my egg is going to hatch

[Chicka101]

Before lockdown? If you candled the egg five days before lockdown and it was going to hatch or even viable, it would have had veins and an embryo.

5 days before the others hatched they all looked the same

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

5 days before the others hatched they all looked the same

So they did have veins and an embryo correct?

 

[Chicka101]

So they did have veins and an embryo correct?

No a shadow and air bubble

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

No a shadow and air bubble

Then it wasn't alive. It might have quit.

 

[cmom]

It was probably a quitter. It happens sometimes.

 

[cmom]

I hatch several hundred chicks every year. I'm getting ready to put eggs in my incubator now.

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

I hatch several hundred chicks every year. I'm getting ready to put eggs in my incubator now.

Good luck on your hatch!

 

[chickencoop57]

I agree with Sourland, if its past 5 days due, which is the maximum, discard it. I just had 14 hatch from my incubator out of 22 eggs. They all have different dates, the last past due date being the 8th of March but the others are already 5 days past due and I started discarding the, from a distant, in the field, next door. Only one had a partial baby in it, that had not fully developed.

 

[cmom]

Have you calibrated your thermometer and hygrometer? To me it appears that your temperature is lower than your thermometer is reading and that is what is causing the delay in development.

 

[lifein1840]

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yes, it's dead