How much is too much to candle eggs. Cool pic included.

[JadeFarms]

I am doing the hardest thing in the world, incubating eggs. It’s so hard to wait. I wanna candle them, but not too much, about how many times would be too many times?

I have already killed one by candling too much. I’m doing home breeding, it’s a barred rock, and Cornish rock.

I have found out by the neck will be black and white, and the rest looked white.

 

[AltonaAcres]

I candled my eggs almost every day. I was extremely quick and careful. My incubator is also unique in that it's temperature doesn't fluctuate much when opened.

 

[Cyprus]

You can't kill an egg by candling it too much. Candling is holding a light up to the large end of the egg. Is that what you're doing?
Was this chick already dead when you cracked the egg?

 

[JadeFarms]

You can't kill an egg by candling it too much. Candling is holding a light up to the large end of the egg. Is that what you're doing?
Was this chick already dead when you cracked the egg?

Yes I was holding up a light, and it was already dead when I cracked it open.

 

[JadeFarms]

I candled my eggs almost every day. I was extremely quick and careful. My incubator is also unique in that it's temperature doesn't fluctuate much when opened.

What type of incubator do you have?

 

[AltonaAcres]

I have a Magicfly forced air.

 

[JadeFarms]

I have a Magicfly forced air.

Thank you, post the pictures of the eggs you hatched.

 

[AltonaAcres]

Sure! I would highly recommend it.

 

[AltonaAcres]

Here is one of the chicks I hatched if that's what you meant.

 

[JadeFarms]

I wish I had him.

Here is one of the chicks I hatched if that's what you meant. View attachment 1789230

That is what I meant. He is sooooooooo cute!!! What breed?