Candling Experiment

[casportpony]

So what's the soonest one can detect signs of life in an egg? I read a thread yesterday where someone claimed to be able to candle a freshly laid egg and see that it was fertile, so I decided to set some eggs and see at what point I could see signs of life.

Eggs were set yesterday at ~3 pm.

 

[Leighe]

Following......

 

[casportpony]

Okay, so this egg is fresh out of the chicken's butt and I can see no sign of fertility.

Placed in incubator at 1:30 pm

 

[Leighe]

Okay, so this egg is fresh out of the chicken's butt and I can see no sign of fertility.
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I'm glad these are what comes out of a "chickens butt"

 

[sourland]

Subscribed.

 

[rjohns39]

I'm glad these are what comes out of a "chickens butt"

 

[rjohns39]

You've got my curiosity peaked...

 

[RowanTheRed]

Can't wait to see your results!

 

[casportpony]

So I just grabbed a pigeon egg from a pen and candled it. With it I could very clearly see something. I accidently deleted my candling pictures, but this is the yolk:

Not sure when they laid this, yesterday or day before maybe?

 

[casportpony]

Okay... duck eggs are very easy to candle compared to chicken eggs. This duck egg is one I found in a nest that a duck has been laying in, but not sitting on. It's been warm here, so this egg has already started and I could see very clearly this. However, my camera skills aren't too good, so I was not able to capture it while being candled. You will just have to trust me.