Candling a dark colored egg.

[Gray lady29]

I'm very new at this. Anyway my Americana has been sitting on eggs since about aug 9. ( now this is a guess I should of wrote it down)! Anyway today my friend and I tried to candle the eggs to see if any were viable. We couldn't see anything., we placed a newly layed brown egg and worked great( to see if we had the lighting right). My question is what do you recommend using to candle a darker egg? The eggs are about 15 days old give or take.

 

[freestargirl]

I had luck with a big heavy Maglite flashlight. I tried several different ones, including an LED flashlight and it just wasn't bright enough. I will tell you though, that our eggs are light brown, and we always have one that it much lighter colored than the rest, an ivory color, and ironically I guess it's light color is due to the fact that it's super thick! I can't see thru them, so I have a row of light colored eggs in my incubator right now that I'm leaving in there b/c they're a mystery. I guess you tried turning the egg around and shining thru a different side of the egg?

 

[Herducks]

I have some dark maran eggs in my incubator now, and a couple I can see and some I cannot. I have a little 9 led light flashlight. I tried a lamp with a bright bulb, but that did not work as well as the little flashlight.

 

[Noelg]

HI

I just went to home depot and bought a coast px25 flashlight, came home and candled my dark maran eggs and it lit them up good!
i could see peeps moving at 7 days incubation

its 208 lumens and was 40 bucks. hope this helps

noelg

 

[Margitas]

Carefull the bright light , you can kill the embrio.

 

[ll]

144 Lumens LED from Walmart $25 - I have brown eggs & can see shadows wiggling