What are my eggs telling me?

[aoxa]

I can not see into my cochin eggs at all during incubation. It's a pain! Her eggs are light in colour, but must be thick, because I don't see anything. Four out of 5 hatched, so I don't remove them unless there is evidence of a blood ring/can see in and there is no growth by day 10.

My silkie eggs show evidence of veining by day 3

 

[SilkieChickenLover336]

I candle at day 5 and day 10 and maybe say 17 (day before lockdown) this way the eggs in lockdown i know arent dead

 

[Hawgon]

I agree with wrestling mom......I switched from a regular flashlight to a led flashlight and it was like switching to HD tv! Huge difference and the darker the room the better. Good Luck...

 

[Rorie]

Thanks for all the replies. Its good to see that its not so clean cut as what i have previously read.

So, on day 10 i had a look again in total darkness with an LED torch. I could establish that 6 eggs have large dark masses in them with an air bubble at the end and 6 allow loads of light through and i can see the yolk. So i can come to the conclusion that six are infertile.

Of the six that have dark masses, i really cannot see anything! If i look REALLY hard i can just about see a couple lines near the air bubble, but i wonder if i am seeing what i want to see haha.

So i think i am just going to have to keep all the eggs in there for the whole time. I cannot see anything, good or bad! So fingers crossed non will explode or anything!