HELP! Candled eggs and very confused.

[DementedHam]

ok, so I just candled like 4 of my bantams 9 and in the ones that i assume have life, they look like only half of the egg is occupied. Is this normal?

Pictures of what a GOOD week old egg[after being in the bator or under the hen] looks like are GREATLY appreciated.

What if the hen isn't turning them? I'm in school right now so I don't know if this first-time mom is doing it right.


Thank you.

 

[Nu2Chicks]

Hi DementedHam, (what a great name)

Are they 9 days old? If so, that is what they are supposed to look like, and
mother hen probably knows to turn her eggs. All seems just great in the
hen house of "dementedham" ;-)

Here is some pix of candled eggs http://shilala.homestead.com/candling.html
and...
maybe more info than you're looking for here with real photos of the embryo development from day one to hatch.

http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2007/05/stages-of-chick-embryo-development.html

jo


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[Leslie In North Pole]

Here are a couple of links for you:

Specifically, one week candled fertile chicken egg http://lancaster.unl.edu/4h/Embryology/candling.shtml

Here is a great set of examples of different things you can see when candling and what is actually inside http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8134.pdf