One egg fertile the other not in each clutch

[sammer021486]

This is my first year breeding along with my females.

I remove the eggs with in a few hours of my female laying them in the lay box and place the eggs into a sealed container of super hatch. Every 3 to 4 days I will open the containers and allow an air exchange. For the past 3 clutches I have had all 6 eggs show the bulls eye when candled, but one egg will stop at the bulls eye, while the other egg will continue to develop.

My set up is a hovabator at 84-86F and the containers that I have the eggs in are 22 ounces.

None of the infertile eggs are going moldy, just candling yellow, with just the bulls eye in the egg. Clutch 1 is due to hatch within the next two weeks and clutch 2 within the month. The 3rd clutch was just laid on the 20th of March and already I am seeing the one egg develop while the other just has the bulls eye.

I do understand that the female can lay infertile eggs, but for the egg to show a bulls eye and nothing more does not make much sense.

 

[acpart]

Sometimes they stop developing for unknown reasons. Sometimes the candling doesn't show anything but the egg still hatches. See what happens when it's time for your first clutch to hatch.

Aliza

 

[sammer021486]

Sometimes they stop developing for unknown reasons. Sometimes the candling doesn't show anything but the egg still hatches. See what happens when it's time for your first clutch to hatch.

Aliza

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what is going to happen. I just have the feeling that the eggs are duds now, because they glow yellow like the sun when candled

My egg from the first clutch is starting to expand and go into a bean shape so I am guessing that it is about ready to hatch soon.

 

[sammer021486]

My female just laid her 4th clutch today and when I candled them to see if I could find any bulls eyes in them I did notice one, but it was affixed to the bottom of the egg so I marked the egg with the bulls eye up and will check it to see if it remains at the top before I go to bed which will probably be around 2 a.m. EST and placed the eggs in the bator at 9 p.m.

 

[Lostinspace]

You shouldn't change the orientation of the egg regardless of where the bullseye is. It creates an air pocket at the top of the egg and if you change the orientation of the eggs after you find them this may be your problem. Mark the eggs before you move them and keep them in that position when placing in your incubator.