Watery looking candled eggs

[jennyb]

My name is Jen and I live in Tallahassee Florida. I got a top hat selection of fertilized eggs from Murray McMurray and they are on day 20 in a farm innovators 4250. When they arrived, three were broken. Six or eight were :/not fertilized or maybe were quitters but The shells seem very opaque. It is only one day from hatch day and they are in lockdown, no signs of pips, the air pocket is large but whatever is in there looks to be about the size of a quarter, and it really is floating around in something liquid, but yet I have seen a little bit of growth every day. I have had no problem with temperature or humidity but these babies just don't look ready. Other eggs I have hatched seemed way more solid right before hatch day. They all look like this. Any ideas?

 

[jennyb]

Never mind..they were all infertile. I fooled myself thinking a shadow was a chicken. When I broke into them, just broken yolk and white, no red, no blob, nothing.

I have 4 hens and 3 roosters living separately. At one point I had about 10 hens with two boys and they mounted the poor ladies so often they were all bald. Nobody got broody. I separated them and the boys live with my two geese.

I wrote Murray mcmurray about the infertile eggs.

I would like to try and put one rooster in with the ladies. I really would like to have a hatch from the incubator I bought. Can somebody lead me through this? They have not seen each other in six months.

Please help!

Jen

 

[gemma24]

Most of the time it works to just set the rooster down in the coop, but he will peck on the hens whatever you do. then you can just leave him in the coop. or if you only want some of your hens eggs fertile you can put your rooster in a crate with the hen who's eggs you want fertile. now this is only what I do when I want my eggs fertile, and people do it all different ways, so you will probably get a lot of other ways to get eggs fertile. you shouldn't have any problem with putting the eggs in the incubator, just collect clean eggs you would like to incubate and put them in the incubator.

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[jennyb]

The hatchery is replacing the eggs no charge. Thanks for the advice..putting rooster in with hens today!

 

[gemma24]

good luck with hatching the eggs and putting the rooster in!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

The hatchery is replacing the eggs no charge. Thanks for the advice..putting rooster in with hens today!

Hi, welcome to BYC!

Must be frustrating to go all the way through incubation only to discover none were fertile.

Glad they are replacing the eggs even though you can't get your time back. I guess it's always a learning process.

Good luck on your next go around!

 

[jennyb]

Fabio the rooster got right down to business.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Fabio the rooster got right down to business.

good for him! and you, soon you will have fertile eggs!

 

[jennyb]

Is there a way to put a picture on a thread?
J

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Is there a way to put a picture on a thread?
J

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