Hello,

 

I have just candled a few of my hens eggs. I am worried because I see a ring in one of the eggs. From all the research I have done, it sounds as if my egg has bacteria in it and the baby will be dead in shell. What I am worried about is some books and websites say the egg may blow up. It seems like all the sites that said that mentioned duck or chicken eggs. Is that also true of budgie eggs? I don't want any of the bacteria to leach to the other eggs. Please let me know what to do.

 

Wendy

I have never heard of an egg blowing up. But I would guess the same would work from duck eggs to budgie egggs with bacteria. If you are REALLY sure or REALLY worried you can throw the egg away, but it does take a lot of practice to read eggs with candling well.

 

I will hunt out a website I saw one here with images of eggs at differant stages for you to look at.

 

Here: http://www.birdsnways.com/wisdom/ww36eiv.htm

Edited January 24, 200619 yr by Nerwen

Ive had a similar problem. I had duck eggs in an incubator and I also noticed that two eggs had only a round red circular vein in them. Those two eggs never hatched and the rest did. Sometimes it is perferably to wait a coupe of more days before because sometimes the rest of the veins are not really that visible but if it stays like that for most of the incubating process then you know it will never hatch