anyone due on feb. 8th-13th??

[Bock_Bock]

that was actually one of my lighter eggs

 

[americana-chick]

oh it looks very dark! i will have to take some pics of my 5 day old eggs....

 

[pegasuschick]

If that isn't a really dark egg, you need a stronger light.
Gina

 

[BawGock]

Candled my eggs with a flashlight. It worked better than the homemade candler

Saw veins in 11 out of the twelve....I'm excited!
I have two porous eggs in the bunch and their air space on top looks good so far. But I did start with too high of humidity for the first 3 days, until I got a hygrometer and found out where I was really at. Maybe that kept the porous eggs from drying out too fast.
This is my first incubator experience so I'm just guessing on that!
Carolyn

 

[americana-chick]

today is day 6... is the 14 the day when, if you dont see anything at all they are duds????
i candled mine again 'today day 6' and still the same

is there still a chance they are growing and i cant see it? almost all my eggs look like the 'fertile' egg picture in the learning center. does that mean they might be growing?! i am so confused and really hope at least 2 of these guys hatch!

~Bri

 

[americana-chick]

most of my eggs are a little bit darker too. and with a cruddy flashlight, maybe i justmight not be seeing anything??

 

[pegasuschick]

I about drove myself crazy the first time I incubated eggs, trying to make some sense of the candling process and what I was seeing.
The conclusion I finally came to was that if you see anything except a clear egg you probably have chicks.
When I lost all of mine due to the thermometer going nuts, I cracked all of them as I threw them away and learned that everything I saw in the eggs was a chick. The only ones that had no chicks were the ones that were a solid color all the way through. That could be white if it is a white egg or just an overall density if a darker egg.
If you see any variation at all you probably have a chick.

I am at day five with the first of the eggs I set so I will check later tonight just for fun. I have some tiny bantam eggs that may be difficult but they are white. Then I have some larger dark brown eggs so that will be harder too.
Gina

 

[americana-chick]

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thanks! i sure hope that is true! i took a farm fresh egg this morning and compared it to the incubated eggs, the farm fresh had nothing inside like the incubated eggs, in the incubated eggs i could see darker areas.

 

[pegasuschick]

Yeah, that is what you will see in an infertile egg. Wait a couple of weeks and if you have any in the hatch that look like that take them out and crack them (only one first) and you will probably see that you have no chick.
I have been told that the infertile ones can explode and make an awful mess in your bator so probably a good idea to check them.
Mine were about two weeks into the hatch when the bator "cooked" them and none were stinky but there were about three that didn't have any chicks.
Gina

 

[americana-chick]

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thanks! that helpsreasure me a bit

~Bri