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Hi all!

12 Welsummer bantam eggs we bought from a chap on ebay arrived today. Just to be nosy I shone an LED torch through them to have a look inside. I noticed that 5 of the 12 have a small (just a bit smaller than a 5p coin) bubble which moves around if the egg is gently moved end to end.

Does this, perhaps, mean that the egg is not fertile? Or does it mean the egg *is* fertile? Or does it mean nothing? It would certainly be an easy way to tell one way or another if it did mean something!

Simon.

Is it the air sack, which should be at the blunt end or the yolk which is suspended in the middle?

I personally have never come across an egg with an air sack that travels , but i have only candled my eggs after 7 days incubation to see if they are fertile or not! The yolk should be suspended in the middle of the egg whether fertile or not, only after a few days incubation should you be able to tell whether those eggs are truly fertile! Keep me posted i just ordered some fertile hatching eggs as well will be here i three days! But i was also told to let the eggs sit at room temp for 12 hours with pointed end down before i put them in the incubator so they have a chance to settle properly as well as come to room temp!

This somestimes happens when they have had a rough ride in the post,im affraid its 50/50 as far as hatching goes

I got 6 eggs posted to me, and 3 hatched, so that's exactly right in my case, Shorty. But as my broody decided against being broody after all, I had to leave them to 'settle' point down for 2 days, rather than 12 hours, until I could borrow an incubator. So I might have had a better result if I'd managed to get them in sooner.