Candling Welsummer and Ameracauna eggs ??

[maureen9962]

It seems some folks are able to candle the dark brown and green eggs. For those of you who can what type of light (lumens) are you using?

 

[Bluemoon420]

I haven't had trouble candling maran, welsummer eggs with a regular mag flashlight. Blue or green eggs are another story. For those eggs, I have a small LED mag light. I tried it the other day ( Day 7 ) on some of my blue eggs. I was able to see slightly better. The light is brighter, and more of a blue tinge then the regular mag light.

I think my DH got the mini mag lights at tractor supply. I'm not sure where he found the LED mag light, but it has helped with the blue eggs a little. They weren't all that expensive either. So, keep your eyes out for one of those in the stores.

Bluemoon

 

[Illia]

Ameraucana eggs to me are just as easy as any average brown egg.

I don't have Welsummers, but my darkest Marans eggs (up to an 8 on the scale) aren't all that hard to candle. You just gotta look for a dark mass that takes up most of the egg, then around day 11-14, it clears a little and you can see the chick inside.

 

[Engteacher]

I used my dad's old slide projector to candle my Welsummer eggs. It worked very well at 12 days incubation.

 

[ChickFila]

After many practices, now I can candle marans eggs

At day 12-14, if you use LED light, you can see something moves inside. At around day 15-17, you will see massive dark thing is almost full.
I never candled blue ameraucana eggs yet, so I need more practice for them