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post #1 of 12
9/25/11 at 4:19pm
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I know everyone says 7 days to see the air pocket, but I wanted to sneak a peek since I had never candled before. I candled about 5 of my eggs quickly (out of 21 or so) and all seem to have veining and a red dot (NOT a circle) in the yolk part. Is that good?

I also candled from the small end. Since the eggs are in a Autoturner positioned small end down. It seems like the yolks are all the way at the top (large end) of the eggs? and they don't seem round, they seem to be taking up just the top. They were shipped eggs. I'm worried they might have gotten knocked around to much, or maybe I'm just being paranoid?

I'm going to try for a pic, dunno how that will go.


Edited by Barbedwirecat - 9/25/11 at 4:47pm

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post #2 of 12
9/25/11 at 4:37pm

Sounds good to me.  At least, that's I see the few times I've candled at Day 4.

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post #3 of 12
9/25/11 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Dipsy Doodle Doo 

Sounds good to me.  At least, that's I see the few times I've candled at Day 4.


x2. My first hatch, I candled every day, just to watch the buggers grow. And thats what I saw on day 4 as well. smile

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post #4 of 12
9/25/11 at 4:47pm
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OK cool, freaked me out for a second I was like "Oh noes postal delivery service scrambled my eggies!" I founf someone else on here that posted pics on day 4 and it looks exactly like them. I even see the air pocket!! (I should see that right?)

Here's some pics:

candle bottom:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn121/BarbedDragons/photobucket-2942-1316993797638.jpg

top:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn121/BarbedDragons/photobucket-3849-1316993893056.jpg

top side:
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn121/BarbedDragons/photobucket-3511-1316993921501.jpg

Kinda hard to see, sorry I decided to wear gloves just in case.

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post #5 of 12
9/25/11 at 5:54pm

That's a beautiful start!  They are developing embryos now and not 'just eggs'.
Keep them growing!
smile
Lisa

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post #6 of 12
9/25/11 at 6:11pm

Looks good to me!! Good luck! thumbsup

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post #7 of 12
9/25/11 at 8:32pm
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WOOHOO thanks guys! It's going to be a loooong day till hatch day big_smile

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post #8 of 12
9/25/11 at 8:42pm

yeah they look great!  I just took a cool video of one of mine at ten days, but i don't know if you can post those here, so I had to settle for my FB page.  smile

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Chicken math strikes again... we are now at 16 hens!  half are pullets that will start laying soon.  We just adopted 6 bcm chicks, and next week we'll have 25 surprise rare breed pullets and 2 female leghorn chicks.  :)  I love spring!!!!
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post #9 of 12
9/25/11 at 9:05pm
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LOL! You have another "like"! I'm totally watching it now...lol

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post #10 of 12
9/26/11 at 1:00am

Hi

Well done as they look fine and you'll see rapid growth and changes from this point wink

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