This... doesn't seem right? Just candled.

[Revelle]

It's the night of day 6, and I have 10 eggs, 7 sizzle silkies, 1 leghorn, and 2 silver laced wyandottes. 3 of the sizzles aborted themselves and were extremely porous, and the other 4... I'm not sure? I saw veining, but it wasn't through the entire egg. The embryo was noticeable, but the veining had a noticeable ring around the edge of the veins? Is this the dreaded bloodring that means they aborted?

The leghorn had a *very*, very very very faint shadow in the center, and moved with rotating the egg. Is this also dead?

The wyandottes... They are black masses with noticeable air sacs at the end. But one has the air sacs at both ends and moves as the egg rotates, keeping on the top? Is this one dead as well...? The other one stayed in place and only has a single air sac, but I couldn't notice much else....

Sorry if this seems that I haven't read up on the candling process, I'm just hoping that someone will come along and say that most of them aren't dead, even though it seems they are.

 

[silkiechicken]

Wait till at least day 10 to toss anything if you aren't sure.

The dark eggs are probably too dark for you to see much, so keep those in.

The eggs if you can see in them should all have veins, and the ring should be there, if you saw the sticky of day 6 incubation candling pics, you can't see the ring becuase the angle of the pic is taken from above so to say. A blood ring is a ring, and no veins.

The leghorn egg should be easy to see though and if there is no veining, is probably a dud.

Air sac moving isn't the best, but keep i for now.

Just wait and see, and look at the stickies in the mean time.

 

[Revelle]

Well, I was comparing to the pictures of http://shilala.homestead.com/candling.html and the first set has it where it partially developed then bloodring.... But I'll keep a little longer to make sure...

Thank you

 

[silkiechicken]

To see what you are supposed to see, this is the thread I was referring to:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=230

I wouldn't worry too much till day 10. It takes practice.

Don't forget to click on the thumbnails to make the pics bigger. Eventually I'll get pics of what quitters look like, but I don't have any so farr.

 

[Revelle]

I took a closer look at those, then recandled so that the light was closer to the eggs! The wyandotte ones are still questionable, leghorn is a definite infertile, but the silkies with a closer light all show veining and embryos.

Thank you for the super pictures, and saying that the bit around the veining is normal.

Mama senses freaked out when I thought it was late bloodring/otherbadthing.