Candling questions....

[downhome]

referenced to post above.

 

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Candling klills a chick when the candler miss reads what they see and toss the egg. Many times the chick would hatch if left alone. It is not the candleing itself.

 

[Peep_Show]

What a difference a day makes! I candled yesterday at 8:00 a.m. and could see nearly nothing except a handful of viable eggs. I re-candled at 10:00 p.m. and could detect over 20 little eyeballs and/or blobs. Good thing I didn't throw out that nearly dozen eggs. I've got four eggs I'm still not sure about, so they're sequestered over in their own corner of the LG awaiting next week's candling.

But -- and here's another question -- why if all the eggs were set at the same time are some eggs obviously more "slow" than the others? I've got SLW and REd/Black Star eggs and the differences are not just between the two types of eggs. Some embryos are definitely more developed/pronounced than the others. In the SLW eggs I've got big bouncing chicks and little eye-speck ones. Does this mean my hatch date will go on for days??

Lesson learned: Better to candle late than early.....

 

[SunnyChic]

I don't know if this will make sense the way I say it, but sometimes when the embryo is more in the middle of the egg, it looks totally different in candling than when it is floating closer to the side. You may see shadow movement, but you may not see an eye or even veins. If I don't smell anything bad, I leave all questionable eggs in until day 18.

I had a funny hatch one time where I had 10 Welsummer eggs and 19 RIR eggs start in the incubator at the same time. All of the Welsummer eggs pipped and hatched on day 21. Nothing happened with the RIR eggs...no pips or anything. I took all the Welsummer chicks out of the hatcher and placed them in the brooder, leaving the RIR eggs. The next day, the RIR eggs pipped and hatched.

 

[Peep_Show]

Final post here and a product endorsement:

I got a Cool-Lite tester and WOWSER!!!! It was like turning on a TV to the inside of the eggs! I could see clearly movement, pulse, veins, embryos dancing and wings flapping. You cannot believe how quickly I have ditched my lamp in a box with a hole cut out of it homegrown candler. And the beauty of the Cool-Lite gizmo is you don't even have to take the eggs out of the turner to get a read on them. I just wish I had had this at that Day 7 candling....it would've saved those three eggs.

For anyone who doubts their candling, go for a Cool-Lite. It's the best $$ I've ever spent.... well, besides the egg turner....