Okay yall i have a problem with my first hatch with my first incubator I need advice. I set eggs on the 7th still air hand turn. I set 6 1/2 dozen I found one that was cracked tried fixing still has not went bad so i think i am good with it. I candled today at 10 days and just did about 1 dozen the really light colored eggs. The man told me they were fertile but i am starting to think other wise i have had to throw one away because it went bad and have another in there that is bad i just cant find it. But anyway... I candled today and what i saw was just a large yoke no veins in any of them and nothing else that was it. They have air cells but no veins what is wrong what should i do.
I'm so sorry for your disappointment. If you see nothing but a yolk by day 10, then surely the eggs are not developing. Try candlling with the brightest flashlight you have. (Candling is fun but there's a little art to it as well. I'd hate for you to give up because of a weak battery or poor positioning.) If you're pretty sure they're clear, do an egg-topsy of an egg or 2 to verify that they're not developing.
The next thing I'd recommend is to troubleshoot. Try to figure out what happened & correct whatever things you can.
- Eggs could not have been fertile, but that's not the only explanation.
- Improper care of eggs between gathering & incubation
- Eggs were refrigerated below 40'F or exposed to extreme hot/cold.
- Eggs were washed
- Fertile eggs more than a week old before start of incubation
- Incorrect incubation temp (high or low)
- Incorrect humidity (although this usually doesn't prevent the start of development)
- Not having the incubator running steady prior to adding eggs = temp fluctuations
- A temp spike
- Power outage
- Eggs got shaken & some membranes ruptured. (Very very common in shipped eggs)
