It has been 35 days since she laid her first egg but babies have not come out.

[shethv]

She laid her first egg on 22nd December.
She has laid total of 3 eggs .
She is incubating them .
Babies have not come out yet .
what should I do ?

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

I am assuming she mated with a male,correct??
I think they should have hatched by now..sounds like they are infertile.

It might be time to remove them and replace them with "fake" eggs..she'll lose interest soon enough.


Jim

 

[Kentuckienne]

We used to look at eggs with a flashlight right up against them - actually it was a box with a light inside and a hole in it, my dad had a poultry operation for a short time, it was called egg candling. You can see if the egg is fertile or not. Silversage has some good videos showing an example, look for a post about six day beating heart.

 

[shethv]

Sorry for late update . I had removed eggs on 27th January . did a candle test. They were infertile . so I disposed them. cleaned meeting box.

BUT now they have started mating again . Will the new set of eggs be also infertile or there are high chances of them to be fertile ?:33:

 

[itzjbean]

It all depends. There are some pairs that have one of two infertile clutches before the eggs are fertile. There is a possibility also that both birds may be the same sex and therefore would not produce a fertile egg. Or perhaps the male never learned how to mate properly, and isn't really getting the job done, if you know what I mean. lol

 

[shethv]

It all depends. There are some pairs that have one of two infertile clutches before the eggs are fertile. There is a possibility also that both birds may be the same sex and therefore would not produce a fertile egg. Or perhaps the male never learned how to mate properly, and isn't really getting the job done, if you know what I mean. lol

I have a confirmed male and female pair . it can be that male never learned to mate properly . I hope this time it would be fertile eggs :21: