CURIOUS when do you all candle your eggs?

[Melmba]

Im not really expecting them to explode im just being sass pants over reacting if i may say so ...

 

[ackie]

I'm sure your egg source is just feeling self conscious about the possibly of them giving you so many duds. lol.

 

[Melmba]

All I’ve seen at day 3-4 is a dark spot and start of veins spiderwebbing.

To each their own. Day 10 is definite development vs no development.

Ohh really i see veins at day 4 if egg is clearly visable .. i dont know bout day 3 i dont do that early .. i have eggs to be candled day 4 on friday i will post picture of my candling results

 

[Allthefloofs]

I did mine at 5 and all hell did not break loose. I could very clearly see the babies, I wish I had taken pics tbh, 5 gorgeous eyeballs and a perfect spiderweb of veins! I think it's just personal preference, I get the argument that it's really hard to see, but if you are moderately willing to be flexible with darker eggs I don't see the problem, lol!

 

[Melmba]

I candle mine at day four as well as I can’t wait to see if anything is developing! Traditionally people candle day 7/14/18. I also candle day 10. These are the days that I mark on the egg. Any other candling is just for fun and are not marked on the egg. You can candle as little or as much as you want technically.

Well ive read that a hen comes off the nest every day for food and water for upto an hour (sounds bit long that ) putting the eggs into a cooling off period i think its called, new incubators like mine have a setting that u can set to allow for this to try inhibit natural hatching behaviours .. so i think you can use this little window to candle every day if u want i dont tho but im just saying

 

[Melmba]

I did mine at 5 and all hell did not break loose. I could very clearly see the babies, I wish I had taken pics tbh, 5 gorgeous eyeballs and a perfect spiderweb of veins! I think it's just personal preference, I get the argument that it's really hard to see, but if you are moderately willing to be flexible with darker eggs I don't see the problem, lol!

Eyeballs??? i want to see that, please show me next time id love to see

 

[Melmba]

I'm sure your egg source is just feeling self conscious about the possibly of them giving you so many duds. lol.

Well yes thats why im here ranting hoping someone confirms my suspicion

 

[ackie]

Hens definitely get off the nest to eat and poop - nasty nasty 'I've been saving this up all day' poops. I'm not sure how long they are off the nest for tbh but I believe it is daily.

 

[Melmba]

Hens definitely get off the nest to eat and poop - nasty nasty 'I've been saving this up all day' poops. I'm not sure how long they are off the nest for tbh but I believe it is daily.

I read its daily for upto 1 hour until a certain amount of days .. im going to guess uptil lockdown? Ill go look for the article.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

With broodies, i candle at day 3 and then usually every other day depending on hen attitude and size of the clutch.

Incubators I do at day 14 to toss empties