Egg Candeling on day 3...?

[gitlost80]

My first Broody hen has been sitting for a month or so. I finally put 3 eggs under her 3 days ago.She has kept them hot and hasnt left for longer than a brief moment once a day. I brought them in and candled them tonight....2 had big dark areas(bigger than a yolk) that moved when i turned the egg. The 3rd looked mostly clear with a pea sized dark area. I didnt see any veins, but my eggs are dark brown so it was hard to tell. I will check them again in a few days. Im just curious if I should be seeing anything in particular at this point?

 

[BeccaB00]

Really white eggs should be candled on day 7-8

dark eggs on day 14 of incubation.

you really shouldn't see anything big before that.

 

[CountryBoy007]

Correct dark brown eggs are extremely hard to telll if they are fertile until day 14 -20, the main thing is just loook for blood rings if there are no blood rings and they are heavier and darker youll have chicks from them. By the way to last commenter, Jesus is my savior too, i am glad to here that

 

[BeccaB00]

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[saladin]

If you are using a broody there is really no reason to candle at all; unless, you are just curious. Many times a broody will take care of the non-fertile eggs herself.

 

[al6517]

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True ............... plus a 3 day candle won't tell you much, better to wait.

AL

 

[gitlost80]

After buying a 110 lumen flashlight, I candles my broody hens 3 eggs. To my great surprise....1 clear egg and 2 eggs with little acrobats doing flips inside of them!

 

[debilorrah]

A MONTH!!!!! You had better put some food and water right in her face. Being broody is hard on hens!!! Give her some canned corn too.

 

[gitlost80]

This is my first broody hen. I guess I should have mentioned that she was only acting broody, like puffing up and complaining when I went to collect eggs from the coop during that month. At that point she still came out several times a day to eat, drink and scratch. Only now, since I have left the eggs in there with her, has she continuously sat on her nest. She still comes out every morning when I open the coop and eats,drinks, and leaves me the biggest pile of you know what I have ever seen from a chicken. I didnt know about the corn thing, so I will start asap.

 

[gryeyes]

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Ahhh, the infamous Broody Poop. Scary, isn't it!?!?!?

I learned I should not attempt any task in the chicken run area without being fully alert whenever there is a broody on the nest. (Only had two broodies so far, but it doesn't take THAT long to learn this lesson!) No stumbling around, half-asleep, walking on auto-pilot, when a broody is actively brooding. EYES on the ground!!!!