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Yeah its sooo cool to see! Well I candled all 11 tonight and 9 of 11 had beating/movement. And the other 2 I'm gonna give another day, but think they are tossers.. And blue eggs are hard to see into I'm finding out lol...
Yeah, the blue eggs are hard to see. And the marans too. The darker the room the better. I've been only able to shine the light through the large end, hold it at an angle, and that just lets me see veins around the edge of the air cell. I think that if it has died, those veins eventually start draining away from the air cell which forms the blood ring....I THINK. (someone correct me if I'm wrong.) So if I don't see the veins, then i get more worried.
Congrats on the 9/11. Not bad!
I was going to candle mine tomorrow but now I have to be out of town all day on business so I sneaked a peek at one today.
Just the most perfect little swimmer. This is my first ever candling and I can't quite believe how excited it made me to see the little guy in there.
I might just have to have a look at the others!!
Oh, yeah. Total excitement!! Yay for perfect swimmer. Let us know how they others look.
I really don't know how people can wait so long to candle, I just can't seem to stop myself! lol It's just so interesting and exciting to watch the development! I am on cloud 9 here this week, because both of my broody Silkies hatched out their chicks this week. They are so cute, and so fun to watch with momma! But I can't wait for my bator chicks to hatch, so I can play with them without getting my hand pecked off! haha
Apple only hatched one of her 3 eggs:
And Cottonball hatched out 3 of her 4:
VERY cute! Love that first pic. I'm with ya....can't control myself with the candling. It's addicting....they need a 12 step program for chicken candler addicts. I candled the first ever egg I hatched DAILY...and it was hatched in a make-shift incubator I cobbed together using a lightbox, which had many temp spikes. I will say though, that I never had to open a lid or anything....I had left a big hole for air exchange and heat escape which I could put my hand through to grab the egg. So each time I candled, the temp or humidity was not effected. I also candled it on day 20 or 21 and saw that it had broken through the membrane and took a video of it trying to pip the egg...you can see it's head actually bobbing back and forth. So cool. This chicky defied the odds (she's in my avatar)...she's also the one incubating 5 eggs right now!! I think I/she was lucky...and I won't be taking chances like that anymore. A bit too risky. Maybe every OTHER day now ; )
Congrats on your chickies, "grandma"!