Are the chicks alive?

[AlilSassy]

Well I bought an expensive high lumen LED penlight for candling... it doesn’t produce much heat, is a focused beam and makes seeing into eggs easy. I can tell an egg is developing at 2 days now as long as it’s not a brown or thick shelled egg.

 

[Care for chicks]

What about an Americauna chicken egg?

 

[junebuggena]

What about an Americauna chicken egg?

Green eggs can be very hard to see into. Often times, the only way I can tell they are developing is by watching the air cell grow. I breed Easter Eggers, and the difficult candling is the bane of my life.

 

[Care for chicks]

That makes sense.

 

[AlilSassy]

Most of my hens are blue and green eggs... you really just need higher lumen flash light.

 

[Care for chicks]

I have an other question. I looked inside my incubator, and I found a cracked egg, a piece of shell fell off, but the inner lining of the egg looks fine. I would send pics, but I don't know how to access it from BYC. I really want to save this chick.

Thank you for your much needed help!

 

[sourland]

You can cover the cracked area with melted wax, but keep a close eye on this egg as frequently they go bad and can ruin the incubation.

 

[lazy gardener]

Read all of "hatching eggs 101" in the learning center. It should be required reading before ever plugging an incubator in.

 

[Care for chicks]

You can cover the cracked area with melted wax, but keep a close eye on this egg as frequently they go bad and can ruin the incubation.

Won't the melted wax, melt?

 

[Care for chicks]

Read all of "hatching eggs 101" in the learning center. It should be required reading before ever plugging an incubator in.

Does it have an answer for that?