Okay...I candled an egg from the middle of the nest and it was a Delaware egg. Tell me what I saw if they are fertile and developing....
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Nope. I candled two of them and saw a darker circle and then an air cell. I saw no veins or darker area inside of the yolk...just a yolk on both of them. Is that a white egg you are showing or a brown egg?
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To be sure, I candled a freshly laid egg and could not see the darker yolk blob...just nothing and the air cell on the end. So...what do I have? Yolks or developing eggs?
Wait a couple of days and see fit the eggs look darker than they did today. With Marans and Penedesenca egg it is very hard, even with a very good candler, to see inside them You can tell if they are developing if:
1. The air cell is getting bigger
2. The egg is getting darker and does not Glow. A glowing egg is usually a DUD!
An alternative is to weigh them at the beginning of incubation and measure weight loss. An egg that is not losing weight is not developing.
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Take that back...candled another fresh egg and this one I took in the closet where I candled the egg nests and both looked a good bit the same, though the eggs from the nest were a tad darker on the yolk and the air cells were more pronounced, which could be just from their age.
Tell me...I just candled 3 separate eggs, is it reasonable to believe that not a one of them are fertile, though I've been seeing fertile eggs when I crack them for eating? Or am I just not seeing things? To be honest, I've never seen what other people see in those pictures unless it was a white egg and it was really lit up. The rest of them just look like a dark circle in an egg.
Tell me...I just candled 3 separate eggs, is it reasonable to believe that not a one of them are fertile, though I've been seeing fertile eggs when I crack them for eating? Or am I just not seeing things? To be honest, I've never seen what other people see in those pictures unless it was a white egg and it was really lit up. The rest of them just look like a dark circle in an egg.
Sometimes you do not see the veins until later-like day 10. Do not give up yet!
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I don't think I'll candle anymore...I think it triggered an obsessive anxiety in me because I'm not seeing what I should be seeing, but I often don't see what others see, so I could have perfectly normal eggs and would be getting all crazy over it for nothing.
I'm just not good at this whole candling thing..it might be best if I leave it alone.
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I'm not going to...three random eggs selected from three different breeds and they all look exactly the same when candled. I find it hard to believe not a one of those chickens have been bred in the several days prior to egg collection. I only have 9 hens and 1 young cockerel...if he isn't tagging them pretty regularly something is wrong.
Wait til day 10.
Air cell will continue to enlarge even if the egg is not fertile or developing...at least they did with the 'clears' I had.
Air cell will continue to enlarge even if the egg is not fertile or developing...at least they did with the 'clears' I had.
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