If you can't candle you can water test. It's what I had to do with my marans eggs.
Fill a cup with a couple of inches of 100-102 degree water.
Gently place the egg in it, making as little wave as possible. The water will go still, the egg will partially float. Generally in under a minute if it's alive that egg will wiggle enough that it makes visible "waves". Tada - it's alive - save that one.
Like I said if it's day 24/25 I'd just pip an end as if assisting - get a light in there and LOOK, a live chick may barely move, usually veins are visible, but you'll be able to tell through a small pencil eraser sized hole if it is.
Then you proceed to help it out (if you haven't read the thread on helping in the "read me on hatching" section at the top of this forum) because at late 24 and into 25 on shipped eggs after a temp loss, they need the help.
Fill a cup with a couple of inches of 100-102 degree water.
Gently place the egg in it, making as little wave as possible. The water will go still, the egg will partially float. Generally in under a minute if it's alive that egg will wiggle enough that it makes visible "waves". Tada - it's alive - save that one.
Like I said if it's day 24/25 I'd just pip an end as if assisting - get a light in there and LOOK, a live chick may barely move, usually veins are visible, but you'll be able to tell through a small pencil eraser sized hole if it is.
Then you proceed to help it out (if you haven't read the thread on helping in the "read me on hatching" section at the top of this forum) because at late 24 and into 25 on shipped eggs after a temp loss, they need the help.
