*CHICKS are HERE!!!* Egg Candling Pics: Progression Though Incubation

[FeatheredObsessions]

This is such a wonderful thread

 

[quintinp]

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sometimes i have heard that the hens help pick the shell, and maybe the eggs are under her wing or something so she isn't putting her whole body weight on the chicks

 

[farmgirlforever18]

this thread helps me out so much

 

[kerrysmommy]

these were wonderful! i love how u explained the stpes and the pics this would be a good learning experiance for kids and/or ppl just strting to hatch their own egss the vis were awesome tooo

 

[Shauna's Silkies]

I love thease pics ... u a brill..
the candling are a great help
thanks for posting

 

[islandchix]

This is a great thread. So much help for the newbie

the candeling pics are great too!

 

[judial8907]

SilkieChicken,
Great pics and very educational too. I had a few eggs that candled like yours and I got some beautiful (you guessed it) silkies out of it. My first time ever hatching and I got a nice black roo and his brother who wound up being red. Sadly I lost my red roo a few months back, but his brother is nearly 2 now and I still love him he is so super sweet.
I love your one pic of the baby with the yellow legs, they look so huge on him/her...they look so awkward when they are babies, I can't help but fall in love with them.

 

[builderone]

Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial. It is a great learning tool. I will have to show my daughter this.

builder

 

[Christie Rhae]

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I don't think they really sit hard on them. I read that someone said they kinda crouch over them, not sitting down as tight as when they are just keeping them warm. A whole pile of babies will hide under a hen too so she must be just sort of sitting on her legs and creating a warm little cozy spot underneath her.

 

[Elinor's chicks]

I bought some eggs and put them under my broody hen. It's my first time ever trying to hatch any eggs. When the eggs arrived, after they had rested and before putting them under the hen - I couldn't resist, I candled them - thinking there wouldn't be anything to see, but giving me a baseline. Going aaaaaaaallllllllll the way back to the first post, on the first page of this thread, several of the eggs had largish dark 'somethings' in there - looked very much like the photos of Day 10 eggs.

I put the eggs under her Saturday evening. Even after reading so many things about LEAVING THE EGGS ALONE for the first week to 10 days, my curiosity got the best of me and I candled them again last night (Tuesday). Still a big dark lump in some of them. I don't know if they were the same ones, or the same number, because I didn't mark them at all the first day. I did see a couple with veins though, that looked a LOT more like the "good egg" photos making normal progression after just a couple of days!!

I don't want to leave bad eggs under her and maybe have them burst or contamilate the other eggs! What should I do? Take the ones with dark lumps out? Could they possibly have started to incubate at the breeder's in this hot weather, and just be farther along (or got farther along then died)? Should I leave them alone and look for changes?