Brinsea's OvaScope

[misslady]

I'm incubating some Maran eggs and I've been debating on purchasing the high intensity OvaScope. But as they are a tad pricey, I was wondering if anyone on here has one, and what your experience has been with them before I invest. Thanks!

 

[quintinp]

I bet they are good, but I bet you could ask how to make an egg candler, and get some good help.

 

[yinepu]

I have that candler as well as some maran eggs in the incubator right now.. i would normally wait a few more days to candle them but since you asked.. here are two different eggs..

I could see the embryos moving about

the first pic was the darkest of the eggs
the second was a medium dark egg


and this is a white egg (showing blood ring) for comparison:

the OvaScope has older batteries in it right now.. so i think with brand new ones i would have been able to get better pics (and the pics were taken with my cell phone.. so .. yeah.. not the best quality)

 

[misslady]

Oh my goodness! That is so amazing! Looks like I might be getting myself an early Christmas present. How exciting, I hope that I can see mine moving around here in a few days.

I'm just worried about my eggs because with the light I have I can hardly see through them. I haven't tried candleing them again since I first received them to check their quality because I'm only on day 4. They are shipped eggs and a couple of them are really BIG eggs, and a couple were porous, so I am anxious to see how they look when day 7 rolls around, don't need anything blowing up in there because I couldn't see it in time. And if my porous ones are not developing I want to be sure to pull them out so I can work in favor of my big eggs, by decreasing the humidity a bit. :\\ Right now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed. Any advice?