Shipped eggs, candelling the slow movers day 10

At this point, we are actually on day 16... the rotohatch eggs are no longer being turned, as they were obviously the most damaged I wanted to give them a bit more time to get into hatching position.
Tomorrow evening all remaining eggs will be candled and (hopefully) all will go into lock down.
We are over 2/3rds of our way through incubation and the waiting doesn't get any easier!

Monday 20th was day 10, apparently it's okay to candle eggs you are unsure of from day 7
 
 
this would be eggs 2-6 in the Brinsea.

                                                  

Egg 3

Egg 5

 

All 5 looked empty, no veins, no visible embryo. Air cells were either difficult to spot or showed me I had missed that they were damaged.

But they didn't smell either, after some internal debate over whether we should leave them in and check again Friday, we took out egg 2. I candled again
and held it for a bit,
it was warm

but it looked clear.

 

 

I took it to the kitchen and placed it in a snaplock bag, I've never cracked an egg that's been kept so warm for so long and wasn't entirely sure what we'd find once the shell was open.

I took a butter knife and tapped around the fat end of the shell like it was a coconut.

 

 

Once carefully opened, it was obvious, the egg wasn't at all developing. Unfortunately the bag smooshed the yolk, I couldn't tell if the egg was even fertile.

 

 

Egg 3 was carefully opened into a plate since it seemed like the next 4 eggs wouldn't explode stinky rotten egg everywhere. Much easier to see! looks like this egg may have been fertile, the air cell has grown, but nothing else has.

 

 

Egg 4 looked the same, the little circle off to the side is a meat spot i think, just a normal possible tiny piece of something from the hen that ended up in her egg. The germinal disk is damaged.

 

 

Egg 5, the yolk here didn't hold together. While tapping open the shell, I hit a large air pocket. This egg actually doesn't look fertile. Although even if the egg was, it looks like it was too damaged to do much.

 

 

Egg 6 has some funny bubbles in the air cell, it also look infertile.

 

So we went into week 2 with 2 eggs remaining in the Brinsea, and 5 in the Rotohatch.

I don't at all blame the Brinsea, I do think I should have left these eggs a bit longer before letting them turn, although egg 1 and 7 both look great. I also wonder whether incubating these eggs upright would have helped. Both eggs have lost about 1 gram of weight more than they should so I've been adding a bit more water. Egg 7 has a large saddle shaped air cell, I really hope It'll be okay.