*CHICKS are HERE!!!* Egg Candling Pics: Progression Though Incubation

[cluckcluck42]

Thank you SO much for these photos. I am now going to invest in a high powered flashlight to candle mine. How bright is sufficient? I have brown eggs and blue.

 

[newduckie]

I candled mine last night and all but two are kicking strong... It was so cool.....

 

[silkiechicken]

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Brown and blue eggs often have thick shells with heavy pigments thus making them very hard to candle. I like to say for average candling, as in your standard brown egg, if you can put the light up to the palm of your hand, and see your own veins, excelent! If you can't see though your hand, but can see though your finger, it should still work, but all you may see on darker brown and green eggs are shadows of air cells.

See though your finger is good:

See though your palm is ideal:

 

[newduckie]

Quote:
Brown and blue eggs often have thick shells with heavy pigments thus making them very hard to candle. I like to say for average candling, as in your standard brown egg, if you can put the light up to the palm of your hand, and see your own veins, excelent! If you can't see though your hand, but can see though your finger, it should still work, but all you may see on darker brown and green eggs are shadows of air cells.

See though your finger is good:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/230_profile_and_fingerps.jpg

See though your palm is ideal:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/230_lab_small_800.jpg

wow.. that is pretty cool. My flashlight is no where that good.

 

[quailbrain]

This is a great thread! Thank you for taking the time to post it.

 

[geebs]

Wow that was a lot of fun... I sure appreciate your effort..It must have been a blast... what kind of Candler are you using?

 

[silkiechicken]

I'm using an eagle tac flashlight, it's a tactical high output flashlight. Post #72 has a link to a similar light. Mine is an older version.

 

[cluckcluck42]

Quote:
Brown and blue eggs often have thick shells with heavy pigments thus making them very hard to candle. I like to say for average candling, as in your standard brown egg, if you can put the light up to the palm of your hand, and see your own veins, excelent! If you can't see though your hand, but can see though your finger, it should still work, but all you may see on darker brown and green eggs are shadows of air cells.

See though your finger is good:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/230_profile_and_fingerps.jpg

See though your palm is ideal:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/230_lab_small_800.jpg

Uh oh, I can definitely not see through my hand at all with the flashlight I bought, darnit. I can sort of see through my fingers with it. It's an LED one, I thought it would be good. I'm going to run around and see if I can find any better flashlights hiding around the house.

I looked through a few eggs today, on day 2, and I saw some air sacs, and in one I saw a dark mass in the middle. Another looked like absolutely nothing but its still so early.

I also saw a lot of little spots in the shell, I read somewhere that can be a bacterial infection, but my egg shells look like your eggs shells so now I'm not so worried! *phew*

 

[silkiechicken]

The spots are just porous shells. If it was a bacterial infection, you'd smell it.

 

[Soaring Chicks]

Thank you for your post. It has helpedme and I'm sure a lot of other people.

hope you keep it posed.