Did you ever candle them? I used to think why candle as whatever will hatch will hatch. But now I’ve decided it’s worth knowing what not to worry about and possibly damage good eggs trying to save bad ones.



These may not have been fertile/live to start with. I've had good looking not live eggs that take 2 or 3 weeks to collapse. I've got 2 out of a 6 egg clutch now that have never shown veins since the day they where laid. They are about 2 weeks old and all still look perfect but I expect those two to start collapsing and eventually molding any time now. I'm not going to loose any sleep over those two and more importantly when they start to collapse I’m not going to increase the moisture level and risk the good four.



I'm not recommending giving up on them if you have any doubt they might be alive but it could be that they never had a chance and if so no use worrying about your incubation now. In my case I probably should have thrown the no vein ones out day one but hope springs eternal that maybe I just can't see something on the bottom. Once they get collapsed like yours I'm not sure if good ones would still candle well or not though but worth a try if you haven’t already tried candling. If you do see veins now or have tried before and seen them then I would recommend the stabilization the other poster suggested as I have also heard the Barker’s report those valuable experimentation results saying big swings are worse than too dry or too wet all along. Stabilization is probably the thing to do even if you don’t see veins but maybe you could stop worrying as much if it looks like you couldn’t have done anything different the last 3 weeks to make any difference anyway.

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