Can candling really harm your hatch rates?

[Heluerto]

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That's a good thing! Get ready for lockdown!

 

[Mahonri]

Do broody hens candle?

Don't hate me, please....

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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Only when they are having dinner with the roo.

 

[dominiquePL]

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Yes it can....

.... if you're clumsy

 

[elizabethbinary]

I supposed if you're using a real candle...

 

[aubreynoramarie]

thanks guys! i think i may have seen a little bit of movement in one last night. lockdown tomorrow...im a nervous wreck!

how bout one more question....

the day i got my eggs, i had put half in in the morning, and half in at night- same day...

now i have two from one batch and two from the other going into lockdown, should i do it in the morning or wait until tomorrow night?

 

[jennifersmith326]

I tried to candle some of mine one day last week.

I had a few that where white but I put them back in just in case. I think I should have took them out. I home they don't explode. I had a broody hen set on some eggs last summer and 3 didn't hatch, we made the horrible mistake of opening them. We had the smell of rotten eggs in our noses for 2 days. UGH it was horrible.

I used a mag light flash light but I used a paper towel tube to direct the light toward the eggs. DID I KILL MY BABIES????

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

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I do this, and mine hatch. No blindness either.