Sorry to be a downer when all these cute lil' fluffy butt pictures are being posted but I could use some input.
Candled last night and pulled four eggs two were clear and one had a blood ring. The last egg was really weird looking. It had, what looked like, this cloudy floaty thing in the middle of the egg. It almost looked like part of the yolk was free floating away from where the chick should have been but I didn't see the eye of the chick that I look for and there was not a lot of veining that I could see.
When I did the eggtopsy on it it was on 7 day (right where it should have been) but it was dark red. I think the cloudy area that I saw floating was the circle of the white part of the egg. It was the weirdest thing.The other chicks (from first hatch) that were about that far were not red like that.
I hope I didn't kill a live chick!
No idea what it should look like but I do know that at 10 days we had one looked totally different to the others when we candled and I thought about throwing it then but though what the heck its not going to explode because I leave it a little longer to be sure. Six days later one of the ones that looked good looks just like it did so must have died and that dubious one is full of chick.
I think the biggest thing I got out of this first hatch is dont be too fast to discard eggs. Nothing is going to explode in the first two weeks so there is no harm in leaving anything that you are even the slightest bit unsure of until just before lockdown.
