[URGENT] Are these worms in the eggs I'm incubating?!

[GlicksChicks]

Hello all,

I am incubating some eggs, and when I candled them today I saw a weird curly line in the egg. It is not a vein, it moves around, I am assuming it moves as the chick moves, but I don't know.

I read that you cannot see the umbilical cord in an incubating egg, so it isn't that, right?

I don't know how many eggs it is in, but the main ones it is in are polish eggs (pic 1). There is one that is an olive egger egg (pic 2). These eggs aren't from my chickens, and the polish and OE eggs are not from the same person.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Holy crap. I think you're about to hatch a baby gator. That looks like a tail.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Can’t give any insight, never hatched or anything, just sort of curious too

What day are you on?

 

[GlicksChicks]

Holy crap. I think you're about to hatch a baby gator. That looks like a tail.

HECK YEAH! I have never had any eggs with veins that were curly like this. And they actually squirm around, which is why I am a little confused.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Can’t give any insight, never hatched or anything, just sort of curious too

What day are you on?

14! I have never had any veins that look like this, if they are veins, they are some weird veins!

 

[Debbie292d]

Are you sure you saw it move? I'd have thought the start of a blood ring. I guess candle it again before lockdown to be sure.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

ALIENS!!!

Sorry, I'm no help.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Are you sure you saw it move? I'd have thought the start of a blood ring. I guess candle it again before lockdown to be sure.

Yes, it was very clearly moving. I stared at it for a good bit to be sure, and in each egg that had it, it was moving.

 

[WoDia]

@GlicksChicks Are you sure it’s not the umbilical cord? I had a budgie chick hatch yesterday, and I could clearly see its cord moving when the chick was active during incubation.

 

[GlicksChicks]

@GlicksChicks Are you sure it’s not the umbilical cord? I had a budgie chick hatch yesterday, and I could clearly see its cord moving when the chick was active during incubation.

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It could be, but I read that you couldn't see it in the eggs. Fingers crossed it is just that!