Do eggs that candle yellow ever hatch?

[DragonRain]

Yeah pretty much what the title says...Has anyone ever had an egg that candled yellow but than went on to hatch?

I have an egg that's been incubating for 39 days today. All along it's been candling yellow. It doesn't glow pink at all and I can't see any veins inside the egg like I can with some of the others.

But...the egg looks fine after being in the incubator for almost 40 days. No mold, no denting, nothing like that. Every other time I've had an infertile egg it didn't take very long before it was very obvious that the egg was bad.

The even weirder part is that the egg still seems to be growing. It seems to pretty much be keeping pace with the other egg in the clutch as far as egg growth - only the other egg in the clutch candled pink pretty much from the beginning.

I'm going to keep incubating it until I'm sure either way...but I'm curious if it could maybe be fertile and not candle fertile for some reason, or if it's a dud that's just taking an unusually long time to go bad?

 

[geckogirl3]

is it a yellow light?

 

[KelliH]

If it has been incubating for 39 days and it candles yellow, it is not ever going to hatch.

 

[DragonRain]

Haha hmm I don't know? I don't think so though. I've actually been using a LED Otoscope to candle my eggs. It gives off a nice directed beam of light so it's really easy to shine it exactly where I want it.

I don't think it's my light making the egg glow yellow because like I mentioned I have another egg from the same clutch that I candled at the same time, using the same light, and that one glowed a nice pink.

I guess it's probably infertile. It just seems weird that it's been cooking for almost 40 days and hasn't started to mold or smell or anything yet. I did a google search and found a few sites where people said they had eggs that they thought where infertile end up hatching, so I guess I'm kind of hoping that happens here. Probably wishful thinking though.