Good luck with your hatch! I love the Brinsea products and I'm sure you will too. I use the mini advance and the eco glow brooder and swear by them both. I've also hatched out of a friends octagon advance when I went egg buying crazy (the mini keeps my chicken math in check) and the octagon was...
If you shine the light into the air sac, look for some veining close to the edges and I would say it's safe to assume they are developing nicely. If you can't see veins, wait a few days and look to see if the blob has grown. The farther along they develop the harder it is to see. At that point...
I have 5 isabelle leghorn eggs with pips already. So exciting!!
I use my phones flashlight app too. I've even used it on dark marans eggs. It wasn't bright enough to see a whole lot on those but was bright enough to show veining vs clears. You can see a lot even in the blue eggs. These leghorn...
Yesterday was day 8 for my Isabelle Leghorn eggs. I candled at day 3 and six had good veining (I only have seven since I'm using a brinsea mini advanced) last night I could see good veining in the seventh one too! 100% fertility I'm so excited. I'm close enough that I drove down and picked up...
I don't. These are my first Issabelle leghorn eggs. They are a friend of mine, Buddy Henry's birds and he sells them on his website. Look up Backwoods Poultry Farm. There is info and a pay-pal button on the bottom of the page.
I have a hatch due April 8th! I have Isabelle Leghorns in my brinsea. I'm really excited about these beauties!! These are the parent stock from Backwoods Poultry Farm