Can you candle green eggs?

[abanjaf]

Hi there,

I'm incubating for the first time ever. Included in the bator are some of my EE's eggs. I find it completely impossible to see anything when I candle them! Especially the olive-colored ones! I also have some brown eggs as well as Silkie eggs and have no problem seeing the veins and in some cases the moving embryo! Is there any way to know for sure if they're growing? Or do I just leave them in the bator and "wait and see"? Anyone have any suggestions? I'm on Day 12.

Thanks!!!

 

[Madcap621]

Not sure, but I came in to a free projector today.......................remembered someone on here was using one as a candler, so pligged that baby in, pulled the darkest brown egg in the fridge and candled. That baby lit up like a light bulb! Am due to candle eggs Friday -- dark brown [coppery, not chocolate]. I can usualy just see a shadow of development in the middle so will let everyone know how it goes.

If any light will do it, I bet this one would! Curious to see what the 'eggsperts" say.

ETA: I was amazed! I wasn't even in a totally dark room and the backlight of the projector was fairly bright!

 

[Ban seabhag]

Same here with the projector. It lit up my BC marans enough to see anyway, and they were impossible with the mag light. That said, the lavender bantam ameraucanas are blue and I could see in those pretty well with a maglight (it was a single beam and a good one). So.... I guess it might depend on the light and the eggshell, but if you have an old projector, that's the best.

 

[kennedyscochins]

I have 5 green eggs in the incubator and can't see a thing! I have a flashlight that is 115 lumens and still can't see through those things!

 

[Ban seabhag]

The same here with those marans. They were really dark and impossible without the projector.