In my incubator I have 2 containers, one has potential fertile redfoot eggs in and the other has what I think are duds, I separate them because if one blows it makes a right mess. Today 2 eggs blew. So I decided to discard the other potential duds. All these eggs have a definite dark and light area.
2 eggs weren't what I expected, and 1 of them was a major mistake on my part. I wasn't sure whether to post this or not, but I'm a believer that we should post bad news as well as good news. Maybe something can be learnt from this(other than don't break the eggs open).
The first egg was a fairly well developed dead neonate. For some reason development has halted and looks to me that it dried up. This egg was from a clutch of 7. Five of them hatched as normal.
The 2nd egg was an embryo that is still alive(devistated is not the word) but what is done is done. The top half of the egg was bone dry and all the yolk had settled to the bottom of the egg along with the embryo. This is why I was seeing a definite dark and light in the egg.
If you look in the video you can see movement including the lower limb.
I've put this back in the incubator in a tub, think it's obvious what's going to happen but we will see.
My humidity in the incubator has been low lately, around 70%. Is this why one dried up and the embryo had half a dry egg in it.
Apologies if this upsets anyone, I won't be breaking any more eggs in a hurry. The embryo egg is 114 days old and I've raised my humidity back up.
2 eggs weren't what I expected, and 1 of them was a major mistake on my part. I wasn't sure whether to post this or not, but I'm a believer that we should post bad news as well as good news. Maybe something can be learnt from this(other than don't break the eggs open).
The first egg was a fairly well developed dead neonate. For some reason development has halted and looks to me that it dried up. This egg was from a clutch of 7. Five of them hatched as normal.
The 2nd egg was an embryo that is still alive(devistated is not the word) but what is done is done. The top half of the egg was bone dry and all the yolk had settled to the bottom of the egg along with the embryo. This is why I was seeing a definite dark and light in the egg.
If you look in the video you can see movement including the lower limb.
I've put this back in the incubator in a tub, think it's obvious what's going to happen but we will see.
My humidity in the incubator has been low lately, around 70%. Is this why one dried up and the embryo had half a dry egg in it.
Apologies if this upsets anyone, I won't be breaking any more eggs in a hurry. The embryo egg is 114 days old and I've raised my humidity back up.