Candling Fresh Eggs Cant Find The Air Cell Save My Soul!

[CindyS]

Well in that case you should candle from either end and slowly turn the egg, not end over end but just rotate around. If you see a circle like a bubble in liquid that follows you around, it means there is no air cell and the egg is scrambled.

 

[DENALI]

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Well i candled all 24 of them and cant find a air cell or a moving bubble of air in any of them. They are either all scrambled or all to fresh to tell.

 

[Katy]

Since you can't see an air bubble moving or an air cell I'd go ahead and put them in and give them a few days. Are you candling in a very dark room? I never try and candle when it's light out, I always wait until it's dark outside....just makes it easier. Good luck with them....shipped eggs can be the pits...and it's always the most expensive and the ones you want to hatch the most that don't seem to do well.

 

[DENALI]

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Yeah i just went to the little boys room and turned the light out. These are marans eggs but i am using a 4 cell maglight. Maybe its just not letting enough light in.

 

[DENALI]

Well i just went and grabbed a dozen 2 week old RIR eggs out of the fridge and a couple from the coop and tried candling them. Same results. I am blind i guess

cant find any air cells in them either.

 

[Katy]

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Yeah i just went to the little boys room and turned the light out. These are marans eggs but i am using a 4 cell maglight. Maybe its just not letting enough light in.

I have Marans chickens and usually don't even try and candle them until day 14. By that time I can usually tell if the air cell is growing or not. I figure if they don't smell I leave them in. Have you ever candled before? If you haven't Marans or any darker brown eggs are hard to learn on.

 

[DENALI]

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Yeah i just went to the little boys room and turned the light out. These are marans eggs but i am using a 4 cell maglight. Maybe its just not letting enough light in.

I have Marans chickens and usually don't even try and candle them until day 14. By that time I can usually tell if the air cell is growing or not. I figure if they don't smell I leave them in. Have you ever candled before? If you haven't Marans or any darker brown eggs are hard to learn on.

Nope, I be a newbie!

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I have hatched out hundreds of chicks from shipped eggs ( all this summer it seems!) lol and have never seen the air cells on many of the eggs til candling day at day 7........