candling blue eggs, can't manage to throw them out!! Help!

[angelmarie]

by the by use L.E.D flashlights for thick shelled eggs

 

[Jimagination]

I couldn't see through mine and thought they were duds,but two just hatched on the 25th day!

 

[pbjmaker]

I was just gonna suggest the LED flashlight my self - it worked so much better for me on some really dark brown eggs I had. With a regular flashlight I thought they were empty - with LED I could see the veining and a dark mass.

 

[angelmarie]

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Bird brains think alike!(and i do mean that in a good way.....)

 

[Davaroo]

Why are you so eager to throw them out?

Unless they are weeping, "red-ringed" with bacterial infection or otherwise a threat to the others, leave them in. That shoud be your criteria for culling eggs.

Forget that silly advice to cull "clears," unless they are diseased. I've followed it and had "duds" turn out to be living - well, they WERE living until I followed all the advice to cull.

If they are sound, they will do no harm and they will add a thermal buffering effect to the bator.

 

[SusanJoM]

I'm with David on this.

I've got 14 EE's and 16 Ameraucanas in the 'bator right now, and I'm not even thinking about trying to candle them. On day 18, when I take the turner out, I'll sniff around carefully to be sure there's nothing going bad, but otherwise they are just gonna hatch .... or not ...

I tried to candle my last/first batch of Ameraucanas, and all I did was make myself feel inadequate, and....who needs that?

Susan

 

[Nebbo]

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OK, I'll pick one up. I thought I was doing it wrong, but I candled a couple of brown eggs from my RIRs and Buff Orpies and they lit up like light bulbs. It's just those green eggs from the Auracana....such heavy shells! Two of them have hatched out from under my white Cochin, and I don't know how they make it out with the shells being so dense.

Neb

 

[pips&peeps]

I think I read somewhere that by the time the chick is ready to pip the egg shell has "broke down" a bit and it is a little easier for the chick to get out.

Susan, those eggs were very fresh when I sent them, if they don't develop, I wouldn't worry about them seeping or exploding.

I have never had one of my own eggs weep or explode and I have set some that were about 10 days old too.

I did buy some hatching eggs a few years ago off ebay and the lady didn't send them when she was supposed to. "Family Emergency". Well, I think she sent me the eggs that set out in the heat for a week in the middle of summer as I had 2-3 weepers in there. I sure am glad I candle often.

Knock on wood, I have been lucky in that area.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I was able to see veins in my blue/green eggs after day 4 with no problem. Seeing the embryo...now that's another thing. I'm not throwing anything out until day 25 unless it's stinky or oozing. I did have one clear blue egg that I ditched last night on day 10. It never had veins from the time all the others did. Sure enough, it was not fertilized.

My "blue" eggs turn lime green when I candle them. Has anyone else noticed this??