How early and how often do you candle your eggs?

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I candle my eggs 3 times during incubation I do it at day 7 day 14 and then day 18 when I go into Lock Down as I breed Pekins and my eggs nearly always hatch on day 19 through to 20, Last hatch they all came within 10 hours on day 19 then 1 other hatched 2 days later I was so surprised and glad I didnt give up on my last one so I had a 100% hatch rate and that was from a breeder interstate who posted them so to those who say posted eggs wont hatch if they are wrapped individually and posted express you will have as much luck as me.
 
sorry did I miss something? You said that you had something on your hands what was that? I mean when candling you should ALWAYS wash your hands before candling as apart from bacteria there is also oil on our skin that contains bacteria so the cleaner the hands the better
 
Day one is the full 24 hours after setting eggs in bator hope this helps, as for candling I tend to wait till day 10 and discard any clears I candle again night before lockdown top up water channels and leave well alone till hatch,
 

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