Finally caught up!!
Happy birthday @Book!!
After all the chatter in here about candling, I did mine tonight. Glad I did.
Don't ask what I was (or wasn't) wearing, you likely don't want to know
@Roan sounds like you need to stay away from Free Ranges house on candling day too
The iPhone camera worked beautifully!! Much better on the dark eggs than my LED torch (except a few that were still too dark).
Pulled 4 blood rings, left in a few questionables that aren't obvious risks and was happy to see veining and progress in 15 eggs, some even moved!!
I know Ron suggested leaving eggs in until they smell or leak, but I can't risk this hatch for the sake of a few eggs (which were obvious blood rings).
I'm incubating Barnevelder eggs that were posted across the country and not a cheap loss if I lose them all to an exploding egg. I started with 34 set, but pulled out 11 weepers in the first few days. I'm happy with seeing 15 definitely progressing, possibly more, because my last lot of Barnevelder's set had so many infertiles.
Only two weeks to go!!
