First Hatch - Candling or no?

[chookmummy]

This is my first hatch and I want to make sure everything goes smoothly. I understand that you must candle but I am wondering about the importance of a candler itself. I have seen many times that you can candle eggs with a plain flashlight or a phone's flashlight. Do I need to buy an egg candler to candle the eggs or am I fine using my phone? I am torn between being willing to do anything to make sure everything goes smoothly and not wanting to pay more money than need be after the expense of the incubator. Would be incredibly grateful for any help you can give me.

 

[Chookchicken]

I just use my phone flash light. It’s has never caused l any problems.

 

[chookmummy]

Thank you so much! That puts me more at ease about it. Just one question for you though. Do you have any eggs with a heavy bloom? If so, do you have any trouble seeing into them? We have a few and I was wondering if a phone would be strong enough. Would the candler be stronger?

 

[chookmummy]

I just use my phone flash light. It’s has never caused l any problems.

Sorry, I responded to you but I forgot to hit reply . Can you look at what I said?

 

[Chookchicken]

Thank you so much! That puts me more at ease about it. Just one question for you though. Do you have any eggs with a heavy bloom? If so, do you have any trouble seeing into them? We have a few and I was wondering if a phone would be strong enough. Would the candler be stronger?

I have never had eggs with heavy bloom, but I think your phone would work better then a candle. To test you can just put the phone up to the egg (in a dark room) and see if it goes through.

 

[chookmummy]

I have never had eggs with heavy bloom, but I think your phone would work better then a candle. To test you can just put the phone up to the egg (in a dark room) and see if it goes through.

Ok. Thanks again for all your help!

 

[Mellowmalt]

I think your phone would work better then a candle.

For sure. Never use a candle, that creates too much heat.

 

[chookmummy]

For sure. Never use a candle, that creates too much heat.

What about a phone/flashlight vs a candler? Not as in the flame kind but the specific egg candler from amazon or the like.

 

[Mellowmalt]

all a candler is is an led light. What do you think a phone flash light is made of. The only question is whether it is strong enough but out of two torches I can use I use the weaker one on purpose. I don't see as much but I see enough and I am just a bit conscious of candling eggs with a super powerful torch. If I were to shine that into my eye I would blind myself - although nobody has ever mentioned candling being bad I can't see shining a torch that would blind me into an 18 day old chicks eyes being any good either so I use my weaker torch on purpose!

candling should only be used to check development, you don't need to see all that is going on in there at all times.

 

[MarciaN]

I candled my brown eggs every day till lock down, using a bright flashlight. It was excellent. We're on day 20 atm 3 hatched 6 piped and 6 more ?s as I can't see them well. I was able to spot bad egg every early and remove and also an early quitter that would likely stuck up my incubation if I had not.. This was our second hatch, the first I didn't candle and of 8 eggs we had two leak in the bator.