Candling eggs

[Willie84]

I have decided to. And let my new batch of eggs so that I don’t have an exploding egg episode like last time. I have a chicken sat on eggs and it is day 7 I have candled the eggs but have no idea can anyone give me some helpful advice thanks

 

[Sagey_7878]

Hard to say atm, re candle at day 10 or 12

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

@Willie84
I’m afraid don’t see any development in your eggs at the moment but that’s not to say they are not. When you candled could you see any veins? How old were the eggs when your hen started sitting? Some of your air cells look a tad on the large side for day 7. I would certainly re check them in a few days.
Here is a day 7 embryo ~

 

[ojust4today]

Wow that is amazing.

@Willie84
I’m afraid don’t see any development in your eggs at the moment but that’s not to say they are not. When you candled could you see any veins? How old were the eggs when your hen started sitting? Some of your air cells look a tad on the large side for day 7. I would certainly re check them in a few days.
Here is a day 7 embryo ~

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Thanks They were polish eggs so a good egg to candle because you can see clearly into them with them being white.

 

[renk777]

I have decided to. And let my new batch of eggs so that I don’t have an exploding egg episode like last time. I have a chicken sat on eggs and it is day 7 I have candled the eggs but have no idea can anyone give me some helpful advice thanks

Currently incubating my 2nd batch....did so last year after my shirt incubation got old and I was tired of sweating in summer weather wearing quilted vests and jackets to keep my bra-eggs warm hahaha Anyway, because of the reduced chance of growing eggs in my bra, I candled nightly...and saw a lot more going on by day 7 than a couple of the eggs in your pics show. Mine looked as your lighter eggs do on days 1 and 2...the spider shape was visible at day 3 and a definite eye could be seen by day 5....even when I was incubating them in my shirt at reduced temps. The rest of yours look as though there is a dark mass but I'd expect more veining. I don't see any blood rings though. And I'm new so I'm sure more experienced eyes would be able to discern what you have going on. I'd definitely candle again in a few days and if you don't see any changes, I'd think perhaps there's nothing going on in a couple of the eggs and to incubate on your counter instead. If you need time to order an incubator, you could always pop some eggs in your shirt LOL My first shirt babies didn't make it past day 10 when I decided to utilize an incubator a friend gifted me after my phone cracked one egg. The thermostat was off and cooked them The next batch got to day 10 as well but after that I lost 2 of the 3...I think I was too active and they were getting jostled. It wasn't as though I'd planned to incubate eggs in my shirt...but my roo died and i was desperate to have some chicks from him. I didn't have a broody and I didn't have a bator so on a whim, I just plopped an egg in my shirt. But then I had the horrifying though that...what if? What if it started growing? And so I candled it and was shocked to find it had. But I couldn't just have one chick...I needed 2...so I added another. And then I thought, what if one doesn't make it? So i added yet another. And the rest is history. When the 2 didn't make it past day 10, I put the last shirt baby in an incubator I made and he did hatch <3 So the shirt is defintiely a viable stop-gap if only for a short period I wish I had a broody to do the work for me but we adopted out our only broody with her brother to a sanctuary a few weeks ago...and now when I need one...nothing. So it's back to the bator on the counter. Tonight will complete day 3 so I plan to candle and see what I have going on