Will cold temps make a fertile eggs show clear?

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Hi All - I need some clarification on an incubation question, if you don’t mind. Please and thank you

If a fertile egg was left overnight in freezing temps and was set in an incubator, could that egg show as a “clear” egg after seven days in an incubator?

I was just curious to know if “clear” means unfertilized, or not necessarily?

Thanks so much, I have to make sense of this nonsense!

 

[Yard Farmer]

Hi All - I need some clarification on an incubation question, if you don’t mind. Please and thank you

If a fertile egg was left overnight in freezing temps and was set in an incubator, could that egg show as a “clear” egg after seven days in an incubator?

I was just curious to know if “clear” means unfertilized, or not necessarily?

Thanks so much, I have to make sense of this nonsense!

I think it could freeze the embryo, killing it. therefore making it not develop.
But, again, it could just not be fertile.
It depends really.
Hope that helps!

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

I think it could freeze the embryo, killing it. therefore making it not develop.
But, again, it could just not be fertile.
It depends really.
Hope that helps!

I was just curious if a fertile egg stayed out on a freezing night and was put in an incubator, would it show clear if the cold froze it? Could it, I should say.

 

[Yard Farmer]

I was just curious if a fertile egg stayed out on a freezing night and was put in an incubator, would it show clear if the cold froze it? Could it, I should say.

Oh, ok. My apologies, I misunderstood what you were asking.
It *could* still develop and hatch, but chances of it hatching are on the lower side.
I, personally have hatched a couple chicks from eggs that have been outside in cold temperatures.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Oh, ok. My apologies, I misunderstood what you were asking.
It *could* still develop and hatch, but chances of it hatching are on the lower side.
I, personally have hatched a couple chicks from eggs that have been outside in cold temperatures.

So, assuming you were to put that egg to incubate, but the egg had stayed outside in freezing temperatures , would it show as clear in the incubator if the temp affected the embryo adversely?

 

[Yard Farmer]

So, assuming you were to put that egg to incubate, but the egg had stayed outside in freezing temperatures , would it show as clear in the incubator if the temp affected the embryo adversely?

I'd say so. Are you wanting to incubate eggs that have been in freezing temperatures?

 

[Sussex19]

I'm not quite sure if I'm missing something, but as I know it, any egg that has no development after 7 days (or any about of days after 3) would be considered to be 'clear'.
It just means it hasn't started to develop, no matter if it was infertile, or died at a very early stage.
I would think if an egg actually freezes it would kill the sperm, so it would be clear when candled.

 

[Yard Farmer]

I'm not quite sure if I'm missing something, but as I know it, any egg that has no development after 7 days (or any about of days after 3) would be considered to be 'clear'.
It just means it hasn't started to develop, no matter if it was infertile, or died at a very early stage.
I would think if an egg actually freezes it would kill the sperm, so it would be clear when candled.

I 2nd this!

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

I'd say so. Are you wanting to incubate eggs that have been in freezing temperatures?

No, I’m just try to figure out how it’s possible that these eggs were clear when I thought he was covering everyone. I’m telling myself those particular eggs might have stayed in the coop overnight on one of the colder nights, killing the embryo. I’ve never had a clear egg from this flock, so trying to figure it out. They were collected the last four days before I started the incubator, so they were pretty fresh, and I had collected eggs five days before these, and they are developing.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

I'm not quite sure if I'm missing something, but as I know it, any egg that has no development after 7 days (or any about of days after 3) would be considered to be 'clear'.
It just means it hasn't started to develop, no matter if it was infertile, or died at a very early stage.
I would think if an egg actually freezes it would kill the sperm, so it would be clear when candled.

Ok, so to call it clear is not to say it was infertile, necessarily. I just wanted to leave the door open for my roo before I throw him in the pot! Totally kidding, he’s a good boy