My pair of crested laid their first 2 eggs yesterday. What do infertile eggs look like? Both the eggs I found are yellowish. Is that normal?
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fertile?
lFuZi0Nl
Jan 31, 2005 03:40 PM
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NeoScales
Jan 31, 2005 04:18 PM
Yellow tinged eggs aren't "normal" and are a sign of incomplete shelling. Often these eggs fail to hatch irrespective of their fertility at the time of deposit. However as I showed the thread “The Hatching of an Irregular Egg”, they certainly can contain viable young…
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…so as with any egg, just incubate it as if it were fertile until proven otherwise. I've got 2 yellow hued eggs in the incubator right now.
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flamedcrestie
Jan 31, 2005 07:26 PM
i agree that you should incubate them.
infertile eggs are usually much more yellow, and " etched' or have a texture to them whereas normal eggs are bright white and are quite smooth. but as randy said, sometimes they will hatch.
also infertile eggs will usually start to get a bit of fuzz on them within 2 weeks in my experience.
