Can you candle test to much?

[austin12895]

I had six, now five duck eggs that i know are fertile cause i can see the little wiggling babies. I candle test about every other day. Is that to much? Its now there 9th day in the incubator. The first one was either infertile or dead becasaue it did not grow...it just had a red vein in a circle. I will be getting 30+ button uial eggs. Can i candle test them? is it harder or easier than duck eggs. one more ?. if the remaining 5 duck eggs have babies in them, how likely are they to hatch? thanks

 

[sonew123]

I know it's hard not too-but it is too much-your messing with the temps and humidity too much-Ive been there and take it from me - I had a terrible first hatch!-Now I have some in for 4 days now and havent even thought about opening-just to look and check tems and humidty-walk away from the bator--candle day 7-10-....18 off the turner up humidity-walk away and wait

 

[austin12895]

O gosh!!! I hope i dint kill my babies! :'( I do not have an egg turner so i have to open the incubbator three times a day the way it is. Can the chicks go blind or anything? And since i know they are all still alive do they have pretty good chanes of hatching? I sure hope so!

 

[sonew123]

just turn when you need too and close the bator-when you turn on the days you should candle do it at the same time-you should be fine

 

[austin12895]

can i candle test after the 18? or could that kill the ducklings?

 

[roche477]

I think this is another one of those "to each his own" questions. I candled my last hatch daily and had 16 of 18 hatch. The other 2 didn't hatch because 1 was clear and the other one stopped developing very early.

Ducklings take 28 days to hatch. I plan to candle mine all the way up to the end.


Good luck!

 

[sonew123]

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on day 18 your supposed to stop turning and not candle them either-the last post was right-whatever you feel is good-but I choose to follow what has worked best for me-which is not to touch after day 18-now opening the bator when they hatch before they are dry-whole nother ballgame for me-your supposed to leave them in until they are dry and fluffY? I dont-I wait 4-6 hours and then put them in an already running brooder with the lights. They are never dry-even when I left them in overnight-they dry much faster in the brooder for me.

 

[austin12895]

how can i tell if the ducking is dead? just in case. i think they are all still alive. I hope

 

[killer]

blood veins go away and all you see is a ball of meat floating around.

 

[spotsplus]

I agree that candling that much is causing too much temperature changes.

I tried my hardest to candle button quail eggs (chinese painted quail and not Coturnix as are sometimes mistakenly called buttons) and they are too small to candle.

Tammie