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clairegareth said:
Could someone please help me,,I am incubating eggs and currently only day 3,, I tried candling just but all I could see were like tge pores of the eggs is this normal or does anyone have a pic of a day 3/4 candling
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Wait until day 7. Day 3/4 is only a few veins - and if you don't have a really good light and LIGHT eggs you can't see anything. I can't see anything in any of my blue eggs until day 14 anyway. Silkie eggs (white) are easiest to see into, some brown are ok - but the dark brown are harder.
 
backyardklukker said:
Hello, my name is Luke. I am also an incubating addict. I have 3 incubators, working on my 4th. I built the 1st one myself. I currently have 150 eggs incubating. 42 Seramas, 22 rhode island whites, 15 blue laced red wyandottes, and 18 salmon faverolles, and the rest are of random buff orps and rhode island red.
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you sure are!!

welcome

you are amongst friends

I need Rhode ISland Whites - where to you get the eggs?
 
DMRippy said:
the only thing about them that looks BR is the barring. they have nice blue eggs.....I doubt it was an Araucana that was used. maybe an Ameraucana or EE. THEY HAVE TAILS. NO beards and muffs that would be cute crest beard and muffs on them......hum......
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The British Araucana is the equivalent of the Ameraucana here. They have tails, muffs and beards + crests. The crest comes from one of the South American breeds that didn't get used in the formation of the Ameraucana. I believe it is the Husatec that has the crest. Check Yashar posts for information on them.

The way R.C. Punnett got the eggs blue instead of green is that he also used Leghorns there for the "Leg" part of Legbar. So he selected for white egg + blue gene (produced by the liver) + crests + barring/autosexing + cream gene. So Punnett was definitively Mad Chicken Scientist level. This is the same man whose name is given to the Punnett squares for tracking the heritability of traits.
 
ozexpat said:
day 3/4 is too early 

try on day 5 if the eggs are white or day 7 if brown
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ChickNmamma said:
Wait until day 7.  Day 3/4 is only a few veins - and if you don't have a really good light and LIGHT eggs you can't see anything.  I can't see anything in any of my blue eggs until day 14 anyway.  Silkie eggs (white) are easiest to see into, some brown are ok - but the dark brown are harder.
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hi thanks both I am only using a torch and put paper under.the egg first can u juat candle straight into the egg or do u have to have something between that and the torch this is my firat time incubating so bit confused as to what it should lool like
 
I bought my new rhode island whites off ebay. I ordered two sets of 10. They sent me 22 and they all candled great here a couple days ago. The whites they had were both the best of show hens and roosters in their county fair back in 2008. So, they were nice birds.
 
clairegareth said:
hi thanks both I am only using a torch and put paper under.the egg first can u juat candle straight into the egg or do u have to have something between that and the torch this is my firat time incubating so bit confused as to what it should lool like
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get a single LED torch (as you poms and us aussies call them) for about 8/9 quid. you can see though just about any egg with one.
 

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