Crowing Newbie Candling Advice and Home Made Candler

[TheChickenRun]

Having just joined the BYC Community, which must rank as one of the best decisions I have made in a while, I need some HELP from my fellow BYC friends.

As this is my first hatch, built a coolerbator which was awesome until it came to the wiring. With much trial and error and a shock thrown in for good measure it was working. It holds a steady and constant 37.5C while the humidity has been hovering in the lower 60’s for the last 14 days.

I candled 7 days ago using a LED light with some guidelines on how the eggs should look like. Using the palm of my hand I did a quick candle of the 12 eggs. I had numbered the eggs from 1-12. From my observation eggs 4,5 and 6 weren’t fertile.( Gleaned this knowledge trolling through the forums on BYC) BUT I wasn’t certain and decided to keep them and placed them back with the rest and diligently kept up the regime of turning the eggs each day.



Fast Forward

So today at Day 14, I decided to try my hand at making a Candler out of a redundant solar powered LED torch that was laying around. See images below. It works.

Removed the glass in the front of the torch.

Above and below: Used some foam , cut a hole in the centre , where the egg will rest in.

Before doing candling on the eggs from the incubator I did a dummy run on an egg that I collected this morning, just to make sure that it worked and that one could see something or nothing.

I candled all the eggs and from what I can ascertain eggs 4,5 look infertile. See images below.

Am I correct? Any comments and advice would be appreciated. Can I discard them?

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

For day 14 those eggs look infertile to me. By day 14 the egg should look pretty full and dark.

Have your air cells grown large enough over the past 14 days as lower 60’s seems a tad high for humidity during the first 14 days?

 

[TheChickenRun]

For day 14 those eggs look infertile to me. By day 14 the egg should look pretty full and dark.

Have your air cells grown large enough over the past 14 days as lower 60’s seems a tad high for humidity during the first 14 days?

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Thank you for the response.
Regarding humidity I came across a wide range of suggestions which was pretty confusing. The egg farmer from whom I obtained the fertilized eggs said that he incubates all his eggs at 70 percent from setting to hatching.
I decided to go with 60 percent and will push it up to 70 percent on lockdown this Wednesday.
The air sacs look like the ones in the image, so holding thumbs.
Will keep you posted.