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Maybe it is not as portable as you like, but I have a projector set up by my incubator and it has worked fine for me for years. There is no problem seeing detail in any kind of egg. Maybe I have more space than you. Just put it out there as an option.
BTW: it works very well on BEI eggs and mine are pretty black. I can do a 100 eggs in minutes.
Walt
Well Linda, this might be the answer to your problem. I myself have plenty of space and *could* use this option, but with the old candler working it would be impractical for me. It's an idea to have in my back pocket anyway in case the Egg Lume croaks, unless Brinsea can bring that clever little device back online. But I think too, what you may have to do is going to be trial and error, and you may lose some eggs while you figure this out: when you see those guys jumping around in there, you might have to see how much time elapses between when you start seeing that and just wait it out and maybe try and narrow down the time it is you are losing them, so you can try to figure out a midpoint when you're going to try and go in after them. I know this sounds awful, and it certainly isn't an option I'd want for myself, but I'm thinking it's your only option until you can get something brighter to use and can see the process better in the egg, and be able to train your eye enough so that you know which have broken through and which haven't. I'd candle three times a day at this point when you are hand turning and try to narrow this time frame down. Some of them are sneaky and will look like they have popped the membrane, and upon opening a tiny bit of shell they haven't, and then I have had to go and put a hole in the membrane myself. Again, take a moment to see if the duckling will move, and then I try to locate the bill which is where I will make a tiny tear and try to gently widen it from there so that at least one nostril is clear. I don't let a tiny bit of blood scare me, but I do go slow and very gently. A tiny bit of blood from a capillary is not so bad, it's too much blood that you want to avoid.
duckluck, hey duckluck are you there, stop reading, and pay me some attention for a minute, duckluck, youuuuwhoooo,
again call duckluck professor, do you not have a camera with a video mode on it, all basic cameras now days have video mode, or the dollar tree has the kiddy $9.99 little hand held ones, no the blood don't bother me, remember I am a nurse, I can come from surgery just holding your gut why the doc is playing and slinging intestine all over the dang place, with his Doors tunes playing wide open, LOL, and then wash up and go dig sh--tt that would gag a maggott, and wash up and go have a t-bone and potato, LOL. But I have had some that wasn't just a tiny capillary, and put it back in for a hour or so and go again. But you know a drop of blood looks like a hemmorrage,
, well I lost my butterscotch, it was developing so nicely pretty pink veins, and when I candled it last night there is a big quarter size black spot and blood tinged broken rings around the top inside of the egg, so, oh well, I am for some reason starting off crummy already, for example, OH MY SWEET HEAVEN TO EARTH, okay, my candler bulb blew, so I ordered one, and seen a new digital flat but portable hanging humidity & thermometer, well then I seen the little replacement caps, I had cork in my styrophoam tops,
, so I order these, well I had ordered me some of those Lavender Orph eggs from a person on here, in georgia, not but per say 300 miles from me, well I raked and scraped selling a few duck eggs, and finally got some money up to buy me some, I be a monkeys butt, out of per say 8 that I got, 7 were clear, and one darn went to oozing and stunk, well I got upset, because, I would not thought I would have been done this way by that person, so I emailed her and told her, and her response was, "You know I can ship to CA, and the buyers egg gets there safe and all hatch, but when I ship locally or close there is always, broken eggs or they don't hatch, Why is that you recand, she stated, OH HEAVENS TO BETSY, I don't give a darn about why or USPS, or nothing else except I had to scrape to get that money up, and I candled them there wasn't even a dead germ in them, nothing solid CLEAR, but to know I spent that much money with her on those eggs, and that was my response, so throwed them out to the pigs, and I have raked and scraped and sold some more eggs, and bought me another round of them from another person on ebay, me and her became friends while I was getting up some money to get me some more, THOSE THINGS ARE LIKE DIAMONDS, so, I get my incubator all washed from last duck hatching, and sterlized, plugged it up a styrophoam hova genesis, and can't get above 80 degress, my eggs will be here the next day or after, call GQF, spoke with technitian support, he is sending me new fan and temp replacer, well I have back up last spring hova wafer set, so okay, other hova genisis had goose egg and turkey egg and well there was 8 eggs, still not hatched, so, just to be safe cranked up the wafer smooth running, time passes by, went out side to rake out pot of left overs to the critters in the yard, come back my answering machine is blinking, Hi Mrs. Zeagler, this is FedEx and I am at a RV back in the woods somewhere and this address is on your package, but I don't know where you live, this looks abandoned, so okay thankyou, OMG, I am boiling, no return number, now name, and he is across the road at a angle from me, and well called FedEx, couldnt reach drivers they dont provide them with phones, so will have to wait until Monday. Monday comes, 7pm, no fedex called well they sent my stuff back to seller, because unverified and couldnt GPS me, now I am so mad I am biting toenails, I email GQF tell them what has happened with stupid fedex, and how I just despise them have for several years now, and no problem will go ahead and send another, there's would get there eventually. Well ordered biddie shippers from McMurray, got USPS email due to snow and weather there would be delays, so okay, well went to town last Thursday get home there is USPS note stuck on door sorry we missed you, you package is in truck, okay its shippers, so still waiting on stupid fedex with change out parts, now wafer hova is acting the fool, or mercury thermometer and digital going to 101 add water cool down continue monitoring, I ask my husband two days later to go get me those shippers to put labels address on before I forget who is what and where, he comes in with a litttle box, its my parts been out there in the truck USPS brought them instead of FEDEX, still no sign of USPS with shippers though, so Roy changed out my parts, and cranks me up, oh post office calls my new 1/2 hodume 1/2 foley white call from Tini Hollingshed has arrived and a case of eggs for me to come get, so through on shoes out the door, I bought 2 dozen Silver appleyard eggs and get a turner full, LOL, great people, just great paid $50 and the postage label on the box says $32, I am like wow, so get those eggs in the hova genisis Roy says wafer hova is straightened out, well get up today and it is on 101, went to turn the dial and the wing nut and all came flying off, so now moving silver appleyard eggs around to make room for Lavender Orph that was a pretty penny and so desperatly wanted, candled them and out of 15 got 10 moving around just having there selves a ball in the shell, so I am just wondering who is jinxing me, LOL, and it hasn't even got laying season yet, oh forgot had 2 hens to go broody a buff orphington and black astralorp so eased a pile of turkey and goose, and duck eggs under them, well Roy has car door open cleaning nasty window so I could see to drive in rain and fog to go to class and slams the door on the dang hens neck and killed her dead, and of course it is the Australorp that was setting, off to eat a bite, now if this aint the start of a great 2011 hatch season I don't know what is,
well let me go, start calling and finding out where are my shippers and UPS, lol, and where is my this or that, and is this or that ready, and is that or this the way to do this or that, thanks, duckluck for the advice, will try to do better
Maybe it is not as portable as you like, but I have a projector set up by my incubator and it has worked fine for me for years. There is no problem seeing detail in any kind of egg. Maybe I have more space than you. Just put it out there as an option.
BTW: it works very well on BEI eggs and mine are pretty black. I can do a 100 eggs in minutes.
Walt
Well Linda, this might be the answer to your problem. I myself have plenty of space and *could* use this option, but with the old candler working it would be impractical for me. It's an idea to have in my back pocket anyway in case the Egg Lume croaks, unless Brinsea can bring that clever little device back online. But I think too, what you may have to do is going to be trial and error, and you may lose some eggs while you figure this out: when you see those guys jumping around in there, you might have to see how much time elapses between when you start seeing that and just wait it out and maybe try and narrow down the time it is you are losing them, so you can try to figure out a midpoint when you're going to try and go in after them. I know this sounds awful, and it certainly isn't an option I'd want for myself, but I'm thinking it's your only option until you can get something brighter to use and can see the process better in the egg, and be able to train your eye enough so that you know which have broken through and which haven't. I'd candle three times a day at this point when you are hand turning and try to narrow this time frame down. Some of them are sneaky and will look like they have popped the membrane, and upon opening a tiny bit of shell they haven't, and then I have had to go and put a hole in the membrane myself. Again, take a moment to see if the duckling will move, and then I try to locate the bill which is where I will make a tiny tear and try to gently widen it from there so that at least one nostril is clear. I don't let a tiny bit of blood scare me, but I do go slow and very gently. A tiny bit of blood from a capillary is not so bad, it's too much blood that you want to avoid.
duckluck, hey duckluck are you there, stop reading, and pay me some attention for a minute, duckluck, youuuuwhoooo,
, so I order these, well I had ordered me some of those Lavender Orph eggs from a person on here, in georgia, not but per say 300 miles from me, well I raked and scraped selling a few duck eggs, and finally got some money up to buy me some, I be a monkeys butt, out of per say 8 that I got, 7 were clear, and one darn went to oozing and stunk, well I got upset, because, I would not thought I would have been done this way by that person, so I emailed her and told her, and her response was, "You know I can ship to CA, and the buyers egg gets there safe and all hatch, but when I ship locally or close there is always, broken eggs or they don't hatch, Why is that you recand, she stated, OH HEAVENS TO BETSY, I don't give a darn about why or USPS, or nothing else except I had to scrape to get that money up, and I candled them there wasn't even a dead germ in them, nothing solid CLEAR, but to know I spent that much money with her on those eggs, and that was my response, so throwed them out to the pigs, and I have raked and scraped and sold some more eggs, and bought me another round of them from another person on ebay, me and her became friends while I was getting up some money to get me some more, THOSE THINGS ARE LIKE DIAMONDS, so, I get my incubator all washed from last duck hatching, and sterlized, plugged it up a styrophoam hova genesis, and can't get above 80 degress, my eggs will be here the next day or after, call GQF, spoke with technitian support, he is sending me new fan and temp replacer, well I have back up last spring hova wafer set, so okay, other hova genisis had goose egg and turkey egg and well there was 8 eggs, still not hatched, so, just to be safe cranked up the wafer smooth running, time passes by, went out side to rake out pot of left overs to the critters in the yard, come back my answering machine is blinking, Hi Mrs. Zeagler, this is FedEx and I am at a RV back in the woods somewhere and this address is on your package, but I don't know where you live, this looks abandoned, so okay thankyou, OMG, I am boiling, no return number, now name, and he is across the road at a angle from me, and well called FedEx, couldnt reach drivers they dont provide them with phones, so will have to wait until Monday. Monday comes, 7pm, no fedex called well they sent my stuff back to seller, because unverified and couldnt GPS me, now I am so mad I am biting toenails, I email GQF tell them what has happened with stupid fedex, and how I just despise them have for several years now, and no problem will go ahead and send another, there's would get there eventually. Well ordered biddie shippers from McMurray, got USPS email due to snow and weather there would be delays, so okay, well went to town last Thursday get home there is USPS note stuck on door sorry we missed you, you package is in truck, okay its shippers, so still waiting on stupid fedex with change out parts, now wafer hova is acting the fool, or mercury thermometer and digital going to 101 add water cool down continue monitoring, I ask my husband two days later to go get me those shippers to put labels address on before I forget who is what and where, he comes in with a litttle box, its my parts been out there in the truck USPS brought them instead of FEDEX, still no sign of USPS with shippers though, so Roy changed out my parts, and cranks me up, oh post office calls my new 1/2 hodume 1/2 foley white call from Tini Hollingshed has arrived and a case of eggs for me to come get, so through on shoes out the door, I bought 2 dozen Silver appleyard eggs and get a turner full, LOL, great people, just great paid $50 and the postage label on the box says $32, I am like wow, so get those eggs in the hova genisis Roy says wafer hova is straightened out, well get up today and it is on 101, went to turn the dial and the wing nut and all came flying off, so now moving silver appleyard eggs around to make room for Lavender Orph that was a pretty penny and so desperatly wanted, candled them and out of 15 got 10 moving around just having there selves a ball in the shell, so I am just wondering who is jinxing me, LOL, and it hasn't even got laying season yet, oh forgot had 2 hens to go broody a buff orphington and black astralorp so eased a pile of turkey and goose, and duck eggs under them, well Roy has car door open cleaning nasty window so I could see to drive in rain and fog to go to class and slams the door on the dang hens neck and killed her dead, and of course it is the Australorp that was setting, off to eat a bite, now if this aint the start of a great 2011 hatch season I don't know what is,
