I never toss anything the 1st time I see it look strange. Check them again in 4-5 days & see if there's a change. By that time, any that have died will be obvious. Ones that just have strange vessel patterns will have further developmentso I have a question: in a couple of my turkey eggs and about half of the chicken eggs I set the same day (saturday the 6th, so today is day 10) I see what really looks like blood rings, but I also still see veins. My assumption is that they have bacterial infections and are dead but haven't been dead long enough for the veins to break down yet. Is this a reasonable assumption or could the "blood ring" be part of the vascular system? This is my first time incubating with a turner so I'm not used to candling eggs that haven't been laying on their sides. When they are upright the aircell obscures a lot of the action, so to speak.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are dead, I've had some problems regulating proper temp and I'm honestly pretty surprised and excited about the couple of eggs that look to have good veins and moving embryos. I marked the questionable eggs but I'm wondering how long to leave them before I check again/pull them out. Seeing as I've had problems I don't want to mess with things more than I have to, but I also don't want exploding eggs.
When the eggs are upright they can form veins in a circular way around the air cell area. At least that's what's been happening for me. I think it's all about egg position. I think they sound good. The couple times I've had blood rings, the veins didn't look right, right away. Keep 'em in.so I have a question: in a couple of my turkey eggs and about half of the chicken eggs I set the same day (saturday the 6th, so today is day 10) I see what really looks like blood rings, but I also still see veins. My assumption is that they have bacterial infections and are dead but haven't been dead long enough for the veins to break down yet. Is this a reasonable assumption or could the "blood ring" be part of the vascular system? This is my first time incubating with a turner so I'm not used to candling eggs that haven't been laying on their sides. When they are upright the aircell obscures a lot of the action, so to speak.
I wouldn't be surprised if they are dead, I've had some problems regulating proper temp and I'm honestly pretty surprised and excited about the couple of eggs that look to have good veins and moving embryos. I marked the questionable eggs but I'm wondering how long to leave them before I check again/pull them out. Seeing as I've had problems I don't want to mess with things more than I have to, but I also don't want exploding eggs.
Thanks! Most of those are chicken eggs that will hatch before the Cinco de Mayo hatch, but there are turkey eggs (and 10 of the 12 of those are good) and guinea eggs (66 of those left out of 82). And I have around 3 dozen chicken tutor eggs that I will candle next week.41 dozen?Well, I'd say, even being down 8 1/2 dozen, you're gonna have plenty of peeping in a couple more weeks. Congrats!!
