The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[maddysmamaw]

I candled tonight and I have a question. What does it mean if an egg is totally dark. No air cell no nothing. Just blackness from top to bottom. It was one of my light blue eggs so I should have been able to see something, right?

 

[CuzChickens]

I candled tonight and I have a question. What does it mean if an egg is totally dark. No air cell no nothing. Just blackness from top to bottom. It was one of my light blue eggs so I should have been able to see something, right?

Is your candler shining through other eggs of the same color? Seems like you might have a weak candler?

 

[maddysmamaw]

It's the candler that came with my incubator. I could see into others. Even got some eye wriggling.

 

[CuzChickens]

It's the candler that came with my incubator. I could see into others. Even got some eye wriggling.

I wonder if that is what it would look like if it was a scrambled egg? Is it shipped? As you can see, I'm quote the novice.

 

[maddysmamaw]

They're my own eggs. A few are kinda old, though. I thought I'd give them a shot.

 

[CuzChickens]

Yeah, I'm at a loss. I know early quiters do get blackish murky looking, but you should at least me able to see the air cell....

 

[Mylied]

I candled tonight and I have a question. What does it mean if an egg is totally dark. No air cell no nothing. Just blackness from top to bottom. It was one of my light blue eggs so I should have been able to see something, right?

Hold the egg upright and look around the side. I had one that's air cell was detached and it was floating to the side. The egg looked black without an air cell at first. That particular egg was no good. And it was scrambled, btw, when I cracked it to look.

 

[ShrekDawg]

You guys ever have eggs that you can't really tell the round side from the pointy side? There kinda is no pointy side? I had an Easter Egger egg like that today and I've had a few brown eggs like that too and I've always thought if I were to hatch any (which I can't cause I don't have a rooster anyway) that the chick would probably wind up being incubated upside down/pipping at the wrong end.

How do you tell which end to put down? Or would incubating on the side solve that problem?

Maybe I just need a broody hen LOL

 

[CuzChickens]

You guys ever have eggs that you can't really tell the round side from the pointy side? There kinda is no pointy side? I had an Easter Egger egg like that today and I've had a few brown eggs like that too and I've always thought if I were to hatch any (which I can't cause I don't have a rooster anyway) that the chick would probably wind up being incubated upside down/pipping at the wrong end.

How do you tell which end to put down? Or would incubating on the side solve that problem?

Maybe I just need a broody hen LOL

Yeah that happens sometimes.

A. Don't incubate that egg, because those could be bad genetics laying round eggs.
B. Candle it and you'll see the air cell.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah that happens sometimes.

A. Don't incubate that egg, because those could be bad genetics laying round eggs.
B. Candle it and you'll see the air cell.

Thanks for the info

It's weird cause most of the eggs, even from the same hen, I can tell but then sometimes I just get a more round egg. So if I got a rooster, don't incubate any of that hens eggs? Or just not the round eggs?

And sorry, dumb question lol, but what side is the air cell supposed to be on? Round end? So facing up?