Odd looking possible internal fracture? Pic, ideas please?

[WriterofWords]

The pic looks great on my phone, but not so much on here. This only shows when it's being candled, the veins are great but there is a strange pattern on the inside of the shell. I was wondering if it might be damaged in there?

 

[debilorrah]

Wow that is a strange looking egg. It appears to be minutely cracked.

 

[WriterofWords]

The outside of the egg shows no damage at all, I thought about putting a couple of drops of food coloring on it and see if it seeps in but I don't want to poison the embryo.

 

[debilorrah]

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Food coloring won't poison it. Maybe the cracks are on the inside.

 

[iluvsedward]

I had an egg with a crack like that, turned out to be the strongest chick out of them all.

 

[WriterofWords]

I hope it turns out ok, it's one of the bigger, heavier eggs.

 

[Oregon Blues]

It doesn't look bad to me. There is nothing to do but to go on and keep it in the incubator.

It might not be cracked. I've occasionally seen eggs where the calcium gets laid down in the shell in a pattern.

 

[MetalSmitten]

i've noticed those sometimes, i call them stretch marks

i dont actually know what they are though.

 

[WriterofWords]

We are going to leave it in the bator, I just hope it works out for the baby. I've got a roll of duc tape just in case!