Why is egg like this?

[EJn]

Day 7 in incubator.
Shipped eggs (BCM)
99.5-100 temp.
40-50% humidity.

Thick Dark ring running the entire circumference of the egg.

 

[Rose Quartz]

Day 7 in incubator.
Shipped eggs (BCM)
99.5-100 temp.
40-50% humidity.

Thick Dark ring running the entire circumference of the egg.

The 2 ends are porous, which means it's easier to get germs inside, and that egg will likely loose humidity faster than the others.

 

[Rose Quartz]

Were you able to see movement inside?

 

[EJn]

Were you able to see movement inside?

No, nothing. And being very dark eggs it's hard to see much except that one with the dark ring

 

[Flockincrazy]

Unviable egg

 

[Rose Quartz]

No, nothing. And being very dark eggs it's hard to see much except that one with the dark ring

It looks like this one doesn't have anything in it, but I've tried to hatch marans before, and sometimes I wouldn't see anything until day 18.

 

[EJn]

Guess we should have left the egg alone, it was viable or at least starting to develop.
We took out two eggs that looked not to be fertile. One egg definitely wasn't but this egg had development.

 

[Mellowmalt]

I can see the vein in the picture, if you enlarge it and look real carefully you can see some development inside. Look just above your thumb, it runs along side it. Looks like I was an hour late to point that out.

What I can say is that candling needs to be done in a pitch black room. I do it under a blanket. You have far too much light which is why the detail in the egg could barely be made out

Also another ps - I am no expert on what is actually inside an egg but the dark bit will be mainly the yolk, then the light bit on one end will be the egg white and the other light bit the other end is the air cell. Just for future reference. After 5 days the first veins appear, then the egg gets filled more and darker.

You should always give an eg 1 more day before discarding it and check if the inside has changed in any way. The changes an egg makes every 24 hours is quite noticeable even if you can't always make out what is what. If it is dead there will be no change as comparison (or a blood ring develops but that is quite noticeable too).

 

[MysteryChicken]

If there's a blood ring around the egg then it's dead.

 

[Mellowmalt]

If there's a blood ring around the egg then it's dead.

It's in a bowl now. so yes pretty dead