Candling questions with pics.

[yotetrapper]

I'm still confused! My candler sets upright with the egg setting on top of it. I take my egg out of the incubator, and turn it around to put the big end of the egg to the light. So, are saying I should put the light to the small end of the egg?

 

[SusanJoM]

Boy, I could use some help at this point too.

The candler I'm just assembling is designed so that the egg would sit on top of it with the light coming up from the bottom.

That means that the egg would have to be turned upside down in relation to its position in the turner.

Now I'm reading that this is a no no????

Uh Oh.....

Susan

 

[Tuffoldhen]

You do not turn your eggs upside down, just for the reasons Jody stated.........Think of it this way...set the egg in a carton big end up and candle down into the egg, I use a small mag. flashlight......you can candle from the bottom if thats how your candler was made, but you won't see has much that way as you will from the top down in a dark room...my opinion....

 

[SusanJoM]

Wow....what a drag.

I woulda sworn that the directions for homemade canders (or at least some of those I have been looking at) were designed so that the egg sat on the top of it....

Sigh......Guess I can turn the one I've made on its side for the next go-round.....but here I was thinking I was doing it right....

A A R G H....

Susan

 

[Kessidy]

This was interesting. I knew not to turn the egg, but I did not know the reasoning behind it. Thanks for the explanation.

 

[yotetrapper]

Yeah i guess I was mislead by pictures I saw of candlers as well. Egg sitting on top, bottom side down....which I now hear is upside down. So to use a candler with the light coming up, you should set the egg small side down same as it is in the incubator. What about sideways, is that ok?

 

[SusanJoM]

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You know, I think when I went back and looked at some of the internet sources I had found for making a candler, that most of them did actually show the fixture being set so you could look into it horizontally. So, I just took the one I was assembling that is much like yours, and set it on a shelf so that I could do just that -- lift the egg without changing its orientation and bring it up to eye level with a light coming into its side....

We will see what we will see....

By the way, I used a clean, new paint can for mine. Good size if you're using a big bulb, and my flourescent flood is nothing if it isn't big...

Susan

 

[Mrs MIA]

13 day viable egg... candler lays on it's side, so I only tip it just a bit to see.

 

[dehave]

I thought that a hen turned her eggs up to 95 times a day, why would turning it hurt?

 

[hinkjc]

That is a great pic...that is exactly how I candle my eggs. Lifting it gently to the light for a quick peek.

"Turning" an egg gently on its side does not hurt the egg. Flipping it completely upside down can cause problems. A turn would never include moving the egg top over bottom,

Jody