Candleing help!

[Rae Scott]

Even after reading the articles and looking at pic after pic I am clueless what I am looking at. I think one MAY have a blood ring??? Can anyone help? My eggs were put in 7/8is days ago ( Thursday night last week) fiances were put in Tuesday night. is this a baby chick?

blood ring?

why does it look not as far along?

couldn't hardly see through this one in person

finances Brahma egg days 3ish

another one of finances eggs.

one of mine again.

 

[0wen]

Difficult to tell from the photos. Day 3 is pretty early, especially with darker eggs so I'd give them some time. At day 7, the veining would be pretty obvious - as well as the embryo. Nothing in the photos scream fertile/developing to me, but again - photos are sometimes difficult, photos often look different on various monitors, etc. I would give them a couple of more days at least.. Hopefully someone who may have a better eye for this will post to this thread..

A decent video:

Photos and comparisons that may help:
http://www.homegrowngourmet.org/day-8-candling/

 

[Darthvader17]

I think you're candling too early. I wouldn't be candling on day 3, as the it wouldn't have enough time to develop a whole lot. Try candling at about day 8 or something when the blood vessels have had more time to develop, otherwise it's hard to tell. But, if you're in doubt, just put it back and check again in a few days. There will either be a significant change, or there won't be.

A lot of the eggs do look like they're not fertile. It's hard to tell without doing it myself. One of them shows evidence of a blood ring.

Useful links: http://darthvadersincubators.com/home/guides-2/how-to-candle-eggs/

I also agree on looking at comparison photos. Or watching youtube clips.

 

[Rae Scott]

I have done comparisons with photos but given these are olive egger and Brahma eggs and my candler is what came with the incubator combined with being a total newbie I can't tell much of anything in person except some have giant blobs and others don't. Fiance wanted to see inside his eggs which is why we candled the 2. He keeps counting chicks as every single egg hatching and I keep telling him not to. Given these are shipped eggs I know there is a possibility of 33-100% loss. I just wish I could see in the egg more.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

On light colored eggs you can see development at day 3, greens, blues and dark browns sometimes not until day 5-7. I wouldn't pull any clears until at least day 7. I don't see anything so far in those eggs. A lot of them are awful porous. I find in bad business for someone to sell that porous eggs.

 

[Chicken Chat]

I may be wrong, but it looks like your light source is thru the pointy end of the egg? If that is the case, it is really hard to see what is going on inside. Try candling from the top thru the fat end where the air cell is. I find that is the easiest to see inside and get an idea of what is really going on in there.

 

[Rae Scott]

Yes I was shining the light through the pointy end.

I will try again tonight through the fat end and cross fingers I see SOMETHING. Not knowing exactly what I am looking for and the eggs being green ones idk if it will do any good tho.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Don't even bother until day 7 then yes, shine the light source in the fat end. Potential to drop eggs and contaminate when candling so if there is no need to do it don't bother. Wash your hands first then candle day 7 and I don't toss any until day 14 candle, on day 14 is when I check the air cells in fat end to judge if I need to lower or up humidity for last 4-5 days before upping humidity to 70% RH for hatching. BTW, I incubate at 30% RH. Do a salt test on your hygrometer first. Started my hatch today, in salt environment the hygrometer kept going up until 6 hours in then no change 7th hour. Calibration is -8 for my unit this year. Battery strength will change the reading so calibrate start of every hatch season or change of battery.

 

[Rae Scott]

Salt test? Never heard of that. The eggs that are mine are day 7/8ish at time of candleing. Just crossing fingers I don't lose all of them.

 

[xxmj2002xx]

Don't even bother until day 7 then yes, shine the light source in the fat end. Potential to drop eggs and contaminate when candling so if there is no need to do it don't bother. Wash your hands first then candle day 7 and I don't toss any until day 14 candle, on day 14 is when I check the air cells in fat end to judge if I need to lower or up humidity for last 4-5 days before upping humidity to 70% RH for hatching. BTW, I incubate at 30% RH. Do a salt test on your hygrometer first. Started my hatch today, in salt environment the hygrometer kept going up until 6 hours in then no change 7th hour. Calibration is -8 for my unit this year. Battery strength will change the reading so calibrate start of every hatch season or change of battery. 

I was just reading your comment and I was wondering if you could check my recent post. I am awfully worried that my eggs are not growing at all and that I am just incubating infertile eggs. I cannot see air sacs however I am on Day Four, should I be concerned?