I candled the egg, held it up to a light. I wouldn't say it was translucent, and it wasn't opague either. When I held it up to the light, I saw a ring around the egg, but towards the middle, it is darkish, on the outsides it is quite translucent. best answer gets 10 points
2010-07-01T12:55:36Z
I want to know if the egg is fertile
2010-07-01T13:00:55Z
I am keeping it in a bowl with toilet paper and a sock, a warm lamp is over it as well, and I held my hand under the lamp and it is just fine, nice and warm, don't think I am an idiot: raised many, many birds, including Sea gulls....
Anonymous2010-07-01T12:58:30Z
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Who knows if its fertile? Even if it is if you "found it" somewhere then the chick is dead by now so there is nothing you can do. The egg was probably dropped by a predator pigeons don't lay eggs just anywhere it will have been taken from the nest.
Eggs need constant specific heat and humidity for many days before they hatch. Only their parent or an incubator can provide this nurturing. Any longer than an hour without being kept warm and the chick will die inside the egg.
Just throw the egg away, not every egg is destined to hatch I'm afraid.
I had a few eggs like this. If the inside of the egg yokes looks it is moving around inside the egg it is most likely your egg is not fertile. The darkish color you see would of been the bird,but now it's the yolk. like I said if it's moving around as you hold it up to the candle it's not fertile. The longer you keep it the darker in color it will get because it's a rotten egg just like any other and the lamp your keeping it under is heating the yolk.
Really, I would put the egg back. Pigeons aren't the brightest little things and sometimes lay eggs just wherever they happen to be standing when the urge strikes.... I once found a pigeon's egg on the top rail of a 3 story cable rack, sitting there in the summer sun, all by it's lonesome, no nest or anything.
Just sitting there on the top of center of a section of 3" square tubular steel, 18 feet high. Didn't last very long.
I have no Idea really but I would call a bird place and ask them what to do. But I think you are doing ok. I hope it lives and that it is really alive and fertile. Keep me posted at horseslol@yahoo.com . I love birds and I have saves 5 adults and 2 babies and 1 egg.
Best bet is to get rid of it, because even if it does hatch, it will eventually die if not already dead inside its egg, because the egg has to be in a specific place and kept in the exact, warm tempature for the baby bird to survive, and since you handled it the mother and her mate will not provide the care it needs since it senses a human smell, it will not care for it once so ever. And since you probably don't have any experience taking care of a hatched bird then you should probably discard it, but if you insist of keeping it, its your decision.