brown egg candling

[thebanthams]

They say brown eggs are hard to see when candling. On 8th day, the eggs looks red and dark yolk. I am not seeing any veins, or darker spots. what else should I look for? If they look the same in two more days should I throw them out?

 

[bluefeather2697]

as far as i know that's fine. im no expert but, i also candled mine at day eight and i saw what u exactly saw. but still, 7 out of 8 hatched just today, 3 hours ago.

my chicks are australorp and white leghorn cross. how about yours? don't worry, it'll be fine.

 

[they'reHISchickens]

Regular brown eggs, like RIR, are not the problem. Dark FBCM eggs are very hard to candle. I usually just wait until lockdown to candle and that makes it much easier.

 

[jen85]

Do you have a good flashlight? It makes a huge difference. I could see everything in mine. The maran eggs were a little harder to see.

 

[cmom]

Here is an egg at day 10. I made my candler out of a shop lamp with a 65 watt mini halogen bulb. I lined the inside if the cardboard with foil. Works great.

Click on image to view video of a brown egg at day 10.


These are the eggs I'm candling.

 

[thebanthams]

ok thank you ! I will hang in there !!! They are australorps and hope I have them soon around christmas day !

 

[Melissa Rose]

Hi There

We have a Chistmas Hatching thread going

You should come and join us there

Here is the link

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=604715

 

[thebanthams]

So 21 days is here. I have a feeling its not going to hatch. they could be not fertilized or bad eggs.

but I will let them in their incubator for few more days and see what happens..

 

[thebanthams]

Today I have possible three eggs hatch any time!.

THe other batch of eggs failed.

(probably not fertilized) Whats the average days do they hatch?

21 to 23 days?

I Hope to get lucky !

 

[cmom]

The latest I have ever had an egg hatch was day 23 but a friend of mine had one hatch on day 27.