I think I'm addicted to candling!

[kelseygirl707]

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Yea, I dropped one of mine at day 11 as I was removing it from the bator (I bumped the side of the bator on the way out) it fell 6 inches to the table and cracked (big cracks too), but the membrane stayed untact, so I covered the cracks in wax, and hoped it was ok, then just yesterday it hatched a health baby chick! So if it cracks but doesn't ooze, cover the cracks with Wax, from then on it was the prettiest egg in the bator, LOL.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24137_img_3751.jpg

good job on that one. I do the same thing it works and the babies hatch fine!! I try to keep the wax only on the cracks so that way the egg can still breath.

LOL

That was wax only on the cracks, it was pretty bad.

 

[SpunkyChicken]

Hey speaking of shells and membranes... I have the opposite problem with one of my eggs. The shell is completely intact, but the membrane seems torn down the middle! (as if someone had cracked the egg over a skillet) How is this even possible? When I candled the egg on Day 4 I did notice some viens and a tiny embryo, but it wasn't nearly as far along as the other eggs. It either died already or is just developing very slowly. Either way, the torn membrane is certainly the culprit. I'm candling again this weekend so we'll see if there is any further development.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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What are you seeing that makes you think think the membrane is torn? That would be a rather unusual situation. Is it possible you are seeing what is called a blood ring? It will be a red ring around the egg.

The absolute worst thing I have done candling was to drop an egg on day 18. The baby was alive and I candled again after I dropped it....could still see movement. Put it back and shut down the bator for hatching. It never hatched. I opened the egg to see why and it had bled out.

I guess when I dropped it I broke some blood vessels. It was obvious that was when/why it happened because the blood in the egg looked several days old.

 

[SpunkyChicken]

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What are you seeing that makes you think think the membrane is torn? That would be a rather unusual situation. Is it possible you are seeing what is called a blood ring? It will be a red ring around the egg.

It's not red; the "tear" is the same color as the air cell when I candle it, and when I look at the egg normally, it's a grayish seam. When I first unwrapped the egg I thought it was just discoloration since like I said, the shell is completely intact. Here's an illustration of what it looks like candled (on day 4) and normally:

 

[kelseygirl707]

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What are you seeing that makes you think think the membrane is torn? That would be a rather unusual situation. Is it possible you are seeing what is called a blood ring? It will be a red ring around the egg.

It's not red; the "tear" is the same color as the air cell when I candle it, and when I look at the egg normally, it's a grayish seam. When I first unwrapped the egg I thought it was just discoloration since like I said, the shell is completely intact. Here's an illustration of what it looks like candled (on day 4) and normally:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i67/Melicbot/weirdegg.png

I have a silkie egg just like that in the bator right now, to me it just looks like a defect in the egg when it was layed, like the shell is thin there, but it's developing so I'm not worried.


Here are some pics of mine.

 

[AnniesEggFarm]

Ok I am getting a little fed up

!!! I know it is still early, tomorrow will be day 7, but I have candled and pretty much see NOTHING

! A few may have black spots in them, maybe!, My one and only bantam egg that started, I am pretty sure has a blood ring

! The rest I am lucky if I see a yolk & air sac.... I did crack one up last night out of pure fustration & it had a little embryo in it (no heart beat) but the yolk was completely mixed up, an embryo floating in yellow soup, I am 99.9% sure I didn't break the yolk when I cracked the egg!!! Please

help me... I really don't want to go through 2 more weeks with nothing to hatch, I would rather just

start over!!! Am I just losing it!

Jenn

 

[CANDLE98]

I am sorry Jenn, I candled today and it is day 7 and I saw my little black spot moving around in my BO eggs and then in my marans eggs nothing! I can't see anything in those they are too dark. I am going to just have to wait and see which ones hatch. So if your eggs are dark you are going to just have to wait! If they are light just keep your eye on them and make sure they don't smell. If they don't smell then you should let them incubate and see what happens.

 

[AK Michelle]

Yesterday, I went to a friends house and she had one goose that hadn't pipped yet so we took it in the bathroom and candled it, it was so COOL!

And the little goosie would put her beak up to the shell where she heard a voice. It was so sweet. By this morning it was all hatched and in the brooder with it's sibs.

This will be my first hatch so I've never seen a fully developed baby in an egg. Did I mention it was SO COOL!!!!

Michelle

 

[chickenlove2009]

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Jen, I went through that twice already this year. I opened up all of my last eggs. All were dead. I put 17 more in the bator six days ago.

best wishes!! I hope you have some live babies!

............I am of to feed my addiction. hehe he.

ok, I only candled 4 of the 17. Two had big dark spots. One was to dark to see through. One had veining. YES!!!!!

 

[OCchickens]

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It's not red; the "tear" is the same color as the air cell when I candle it, and when I look at the egg normally, it's a grayish seam. When I first unwrapped the egg I thought it was just discoloration since like I said, the shell is completely intact. Here's an illustration of what it looks like candled (on day 4) and normally:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i67/Melicbot/weirdegg.png

I have a silkie egg just like that in the bator right now, to me it just looks like a defect in the egg when it was layed, like the shell is thin there, but it's developing so I'm not worried.


Here are some pics of mine.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24137_weird_egg_1.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/24137_weird_egg_2.jpg

What do you do with your camera to manage to get these beautiful candling pics?