Please look at these eggs *UPDATE! Pip!*

[Nugget]

I just picked these up tonight. They were supposed to be a week under a broody hen, and were sold to me as hatching eggs. I'm assuming these will hatch nothing and smell really bad in a few days?

What do you think?

 

[shmooborp]

theres no picture.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

I wasn't able to view a pic.

OK now I see it. Does the yolk spin freely when you turn the egg? If it does, there is nothing there. You might want to give it a few more days in the bator, just to be sure, but it doesn't look good to me at this point.

 

[Must Be Losing It]

I'd wait til someone w/ more experience looks, but honestly they don't look like anything is going on inside those eggs.

 

[mangled]

I would say the same thing, Is it possible they've not been incubated at all?

I don't have experience beyond my own incubation, but when I candled at 1 week, you could definitely see viens and embryo.

Em

 

[MissPrissy]

I would NEVER buy eggs that had already been under a broody hen. You want fertile eggs that are fresh and never having started the incubation period. The moving and cooling off from going from a nest to an incubator would probably cause the embryo to die.

If those are from a nest from a broody hen and she hasn't actively started sitting when you incubate them it will take 7 days to see veining.

Eggs don't go rotten that fast either. You will smell the stink before they burst.

Pourous eggs will hatch. I have a couple in my bator now growing just fine.

Put them in your bator and give them 7 days to show you what they can do!

Good luck!

 

[Nugget]

Prissy, what do you think of the spatter of lucent spots over the shells? I thought I read somewhere that suggests bacterial contamination? If you think it isn't a guaranteed waste of time I'll incubate them.

Thanks so much for your thoughts everyone

 

[Nugget]

I didn't mean to get old eggs btw... the farm doesn't normally sell eggs but agreed to our request as sort of a favour. When we got there we learned that these eggs have been piling up under the hen and we weren't sure how old they were (a week or less). I'm a novice, and when told it may simply mean less incubation time, we bought them

Queen of bad choices!

 

[MissPrissy]

That is just a porous shell. I have orp eggs in my bator like that now that are developing fine. Don't toss them. At least put 7 days in them to see what happens. It'll be an experiment.

Any bacteria I have seen was in goose eggs and it was black spots creeping out like something from a Steven King thriller.

 

[Nugget]

lol, well thank you for your wealth of info! We'll keep our fingers tightly crossed