Candling eggs

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC! Sometimes I use two flashlights, one at each end.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC. Good luck with your candling endeavours.

 

[chicken4prez]

Welcome to BYC! Please make yourself comforable.

 

[RollTideChicken]

Hey I gotta question along this line as well...
Does it matter what position the egg is in? I was thinking that if the fat end is down then the chick is upside-down, right?
Thanks!

 

[007Sean]

Hey I gotta question along this line as well...
Does it matter what position the egg is in? I was thinking that if the fat end is down then the chick is upside-down, right?
Thanks!

That is correct!

 

[Runnerducks1]

Welcome to BYC! Sometimes I use two flashlights, one at each end.

Will this work for my green americuana eggs?

 

[casportpony]

Will this work for my green americuana eggs?

You can try. Works pretty well on my dark, thick-shelled pea eggs.

 

[J.Bird]

Is there a good way to candle eggs especially dark brown (Maran) chicken eggs without spending an arm and a leg for a commercial Candle device? I have used an empty toilet paper roll and flashlight but it was still really difficult to visualize inside the egg.
I did look at them before setting them to incubate. I will check again on Friday 2/16. This will be day 7.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I don't know if anyone had already suggested this, but what I've done in the past is take a toilet paper tube and hold the flash light up to one end of the tube and hold the egg up to the other end. Also, you could take a issue box and cut a hole in one side and cut another hole across from it. Use the same procedure as the toilet paper tube. Hope you find away to candle your eggs! Good luck!!!

 

[RollTideChicken]

That is correct!

Is there an "incorrect" way to candle the egg, in regards to egg position?
Thanks!

 

[007Sean]

Is there an "incorrect" way to candle the egg, in regards to egg position?
Thanks!

You may want to ask your questions in the Incubation and Hatching section of this forum. Here's the link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/incubating-hatching-eggs.5/
To answer your question, the way most peeps candle is pointed end down, shinning the light up through the egg but I guess there's really no correct or wrong way! As long as you can see the inside of the egg and be able to see what's going on, doesn't really matter if it's correct, does it!