Dead in shell?

[alley cat]

How can you tell if an egg that hasnt hatched at the expected time is a 'dead in shell' ?

Has anyone any info on this please?

[sandy]

Originally Posted by alley cat

How can you tell if an egg that hasnt hatched at the expected time is a 'dead in shell' ?

Has anyone any info on this please?

Sorry the only way I know is to open the egg up. But I wouldn't do that until its way past hatching time.

[burnt toast]

I have one of these Alley. I realise they are a lot of money but maybe you could look for a used one?

https://www.avitronics.co.uk/index.asp

It tells you if there is a heartbeat in your egg or indeed not

[alley cat]

Originally Posted by burnt toast

I have one of these Alley. I realise they are a lot of money but maybe you could look for a used one?

https://www.avitronics.co.uk/index.asp

It tells you if there is a heartbeat in your egg or indeed not

That looks good lynne but out of my price range

So there is no visual with it just heartbeat indicator?

[alley cat]

Originally Posted by sandy

Sorry the only way I know is to open the egg up. But I wouldn't do that until its way past hatching time.

I will leave it for now then!

[burnt toast]

It has a picture of a chick which flaps it wings if movement is detected. There is a picture of a heart which stays black & emits a flat line if no heartbeat detected or "beats" & the line is active & its then shows you beats per minute if a live hatchling is in the egg. ( usually mid to high 60b's,per minute)

Its ashame you don't live closer we could share this!

[Pussygalore]

don't mean to sound daft but could you use a stethoscope? would you be able to hear a heart beat.

[alley cat]

Originally Posted by burnt toast

It has a picture of a chick which flaps it wings if movement is detected. There is a picture of a heart which stays black & emits a flat line if no heartbeat detected or "beats" & the line is active & its then shows you beats per minute if a live hatchling is in the egg. ( usually mid to high 60b's,per minute)

Its ashame you don't live closer we could share this!

It sounds really good, I vaguely remember you mentioning it once before, didnt you get it with some torts that you got? It would be good to live close enough to share but I am just going to have to wait and see if anything hatches

The clutch of eggs I have this one left in=1 hatched at 58 days but died, 1 hatched at 62 days and is fine, then this egg that is left is now at 73 days.

[burnt toast]

Yes that's right I got mine from same Lady I got my elderly Herman's from.

Its hard Alley, I had one last summer got to 79 days &still hadn't hatched. I knew there was a live hatchling in the egg so had left & left it. I did then decide to intervene & open the egg but the hatchling died a few days later - either way I would say he wasn't meant to be.