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Hey all,just wondering,remember my little baja that laid the 4 eggs the other day,well they were pretty dry by the time i found them so i thought htere wasn't much chance of them hatching but stuck em in the incubator anyway,so here is the Q: would a dead egg still absorb water?All the eggs seem to be filling out,albeit a bit slowly but they are filling out,could they be viable.Thanks for putting up with the Q's
see yah

All my eggs (with the exception of a few) were fine. They were pretty dried and wrinkled when I put them in the incubator too. I nearly tossed them all out.

Get a small pen light, and (in a dark room) shine the light through the side of the egg. You should see some red veins, and perhaps even a red circular area near the surface of the egg. If they are not fertile, they will appear to be yellowish, with nothing inside. They can still be white on the outside, but when you shine a light through it, it will appear yellowish, with no veins.

Check it out. I do think dead eggs will still absorb water too, just by osmosis...

I hope they are fertile!

John Eddington

I feel much better now knowing that happened to you as well!!I'm going to try and get a pentorch and do the "candling" thingy.Hey john thanks for all your help mate,it's good to know ppl who are willing to help when help's needed,it's always the good deeds that ppl do that go unnoticed and the bad stuff that get's picked up onI'll get back to yah on those eggs when i've done the candling thingy,i wouldn't be too confident of doing this except that i have LG eggs that are deffinate viables to compare to.
thanxs and see yah

Don't poach those eggs!

John

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