5/6/05
I've had the eggs since 5/4/05. We're not sure how old
they were when they arrived, but we were told that they
wouldn't really start developing until a hen was sitting
on them which was two days ago.
Here is how I'm candling the eggs: I take
my super high powered LED
flashlight and cup my hand to make a tunnel for the
light to pass through. I put the flashlight against one
side and the egg against the other. It is quick and easy.
Below is Alana showing me where the egg is suppose to
be:
I've never done this before so I wanted to
candle a store bought egg to use as my egg candling benchmark.
Store Bought Egg
One of my fertilized
eggs (a few days old)
Here Is my Egg Log. Remember, I'm not exactly
sure how old these eggs are, so I'm going to say that
Thursday, 5/4 is Day 1 (the first day she was on the eggs
all day).
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
My camera started to have a very hard
time focusing on the eggs after day 3 so all the pictures
came out too fuzzy to post. If / when we ever do this
again I'll be sure to use a better camera and take some
better pictures
5/8/05
Today is Mother's Day! What a great day to candle eggs and see if my hen
is going to be a mother. I candled all of the 7 eggs. The three big eggs
seem to all have well formed webs of veins. The 4 smaller eggs didn't
seem as developed, but all of them had what looked like developing chicks.
We actually saw a tiny little beating heart in one of the large eggs.
I tried to take a video, but it didn't really come out very well. I've
been reading that some people don't like to handle the eggs too much,
so I'm not sure if I'll continue to candle every day. Curiosity may get
the best of me though.
