Veins:

[cattbird]

Right , I know if a baby chick embryo dies the veins dry up and dissappear. But how about if a embryo dies at the later stages? 18 days or so. Would the veins still be visable when candling?

 

[Cherlyn]

Mine seems to have died on Day 24, and I still see veins. Not tossing it yet, just in case.

~Cherlyn

 

[dancingbear]

If you still see veins, it's alive. The veins disappear when the heart stops beating. There's no more blood pressure. They don't dry up, they just collapse. Even in a later stage, near hatch, they'd collapse. Within a few hours of death, I'm pretty sure you'd stop seeing visible veins when you candle.

 

[Cherlyn]

My little guy must have died this morning, then. I just finished day 24 and knew that something was wrong. He was dead inside the shell and had not pipped the air cell yet.

~Cherlyn

 

[cattbird]

I'm so worried about my 3 eggs. Day 22 and nothing. I candled them (I know I shouldn't, but humidity hasn't dropped at all) and 2 had veins around the edges just below the air sack- and the third was black.. i'm thinking pipped in to the air sack?

But still nothing, no cheaping no rocking and no pipping

 

[mulia24]

I think chicken hatch in the 21st day? I've read that chicken inside can still alive in 23rd day but I don't know each one alive of course since my eggs just entered the 2nd day in bator with me busy to prepare fire each time my power company shut the power down. (I really dislike my country's power company)

 

[Cherlyn]

You need to wait until Day 25 to start really freaking out. Yes, a "normal" incubation period is 21 days, but chicks can take up to 25. The chick may only have been out of the 'bator for 30 sec for a quick candle, but that is plenty of time to be shrink-wrapped (unless the humidity level in your room is exactly the same as your 'bator). Find some distractions to keep you away from it all right now; the chicks know best and will come out if and when they are ready!

~Cherlyn

 

[mulia24]

thank you cherlyn for information, I won't throw away any eggs that haven't hatch in my bator before the 25th day if you think they could still alive.

 

[Cherlyn]

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Hopefully they are still alive and kicking, in a manner of speaking.

My little guy unfortunately was not alive by the end of Day 24, but I have heard of plenty of chickies who hatched as late as Day 25.

~Cherlyn

 

[mulia24]

maybe I could just USG them or using X ray to watch the real what happen.