What's the earliest point that you can candle and tell if the eggs are developing?

[kupi99]

I set my eggs about 5 days ago. Before I placed them in my Bresnea Mini, I ran the bator for day, and all looked good. Temps were reading 99.6 and steady, so I placed my eggs in. 5 days later, I went to candle them and the eggs were cold, as in cold like they hadn't been placed in bator at all. The bator was still reading about 99.5. I had heard the turner going off that morning. I panicked thinking my bator wasn't working anymore, there had been some kind of power outage that had messed it up, etc... I candled the eggs to find they all looked clear/no development. No blood rings or anything showing they had been growing and quit.
Well, after I brief spell I discovered the issue was on my end. I hadn't lined up the fan right when I had cleaned it out from the last hatch.

So, while feeling pretty stupid, I fixed and now it's running.

I'm wondering if those eggs I had are still any good, of course. I'm a school teacher, and we have a SUPER limited window to hatch the eggs out in before our last day of school on May 22. Right now, we can just barely squeek it in. How soon will candling show anything? If I need to get new eggs, I'd need to know ASAP. I'm not even sure I'll be able to get some.
Also, do I need to worry that these will start developing normally, only to die later in development, or at hatch time due to the way they were "stored"?

This might just kill our hatch this year. Seriously cannot believe I did that.

 

[scflock]

I set my eggs about 5 days ago. Before I placed them in my Bresnea Mini, I ran the bator for day, and all looked good. Temps were reading 99.6 and steady, so I placed my eggs in. 5 days later, I went to candle them and the eggs were cold, as in cold like they hadn't been placed in bator at all. The bator was still reading about 99.5. I had heard the turner going off that morning. I panicked thinking my bator wasn't working anymore, there had been some kind of power outage that had messed it up, etc... I candled the eggs to find they all looked clear/no development. No blood rings or anything showing they had been growing and quit.

Well, after I brief spell I discovered the issue was on my end. I hadn't lined up the fan right when I had cleaned it out from the last hatch.  So, while feeling pretty stupid, I fixed and now it's running.

I'm wondering if those eggs I had are still any good, of course. I'm a school teacher, and we have a SUPER limited window to hatch the eggs out in before our last day of school on May 22. Right now, we can just barely squeek it in. How soon will candling show anything? If I need to get new eggs, I'd need to know ASAP. I'm not even sure I'll be able to get some.
Also, do I need to worry that these will start developing normally, only to die later in development, or at hatch time due to the way they were "stored"?

This might just kill our hatch this year. Seriously cannot believe I did that.

I would think that the worst that would happen with that is either a delayed hatch, or they didn't even start developing at all and it would be like setting new eggs today. I would candle again on Thursday to see if there was any progress, but maybe have backup eggs on hand just in case