Mrs. Viss' Classroom Hatch-a-Long!

[TwoCrows]

A: @Iluveggers name: Pikachu
B: @GodLovesU name: Junior
C: @Sefirothe name: Peaches
D: @Debbie292d name: Pinky Pie
E: @2ndTink name: Pinkie
F: @akroberts1085 name: Froda
G
H
I
J: @SunriseChickers name: Justin
K: @SunriseChickers name: King
L: @TwoCrows name: Birdie
M
N
O
P: @ABQ chicken keeper name: Peanut
Q: @Smokerbill name: Bebop
R
Bonus Egg! S: @GreenJay name: Cashew


Updated list! Glad to see some more people joining in on the fun! Today is day 7, which will be our first candling! Fingers crossed we have lots of little embryos! I will take pictures of the eggs and post them here because I am extra like that, lol. Unfortunately, my magicfly candler was delayed and is arriving later today at my house, so we will have to make do with the candling light on the incubator for now. I will have the nice one for the next candling at day 14! Any eggs I'm unsure of today, I will probably take a quick peek at on day 10 too, for science... and because I have very little self control.

Candleing is always super EGG-citing! Come on all you egglets, don't disappoint! Birdie, keep growing!!

 

[tviss711]

Okay! We just candled our eggs. I will probably do a second candling tomorrow on the blue/olive eggs as long as my magicfly arrives today like its supposed to, because they were really difficult to see into with the incubator's candler. We were able to identify air cells, and on some we could see a "dark" side (where hopefully the embryo is developing) and a light side of the egg. The brown/cream eggs are always a dream to candle - on every brown egg we saw the little peanut shape and dark eye looking out! Some of them were wiggling which was so exciting to the kiddos (and me)!! I tried to let them each see a blue egg and a brown egg so they could see some development.

I hear mixed advice on frequent candling for various reasons, mostly because more handling = more room for dropping, introducing bacteria, etc. I am super cautious about it though and I really want to check on those blue ones again!

I do apologize, in my excitement I was not able to snap the pictures I was hoping to get.

I will update the list with confirmed embryos shortly, and will edit it again tomorrow once I look again at the blue ones! But so far, so good! There were no obvious quitters, I didn't see any blood rings either. Tomorrow will be more enlightening for the blue and green eggs though.

 

[GreenJay]

Okay! We just candled our eggs. I will probably do a second candling tomorrow on the blue/olive eggs as long as my magicfly arrives today like its supposed to, because they were really difficult to see into with the incubator's candler. We were able to identify air cells, and on some we could see a "dark" side (where hopefully the embryo is developing) and a light side of the egg. The brown/cream eggs are always a dream to candle - on every brown egg we saw the little peanut shape and dark eye looking out! Some of them were wiggling which was so exciting to the kiddos (and me)!! I tried to let them each see a blue egg and a brown egg so they could see some development.

I hear mixed advice on frequent candling for various reasons, mostly because more handling = more room for dropping, introducing bacteria, etc. I am super cautious about it though and I really want to check on those blue ones again!

I do apologize, in my excitement I was not able to snap the pictures I was hoping to get.

I will update the list with confirmed embryos shortly, and will edit it again tomorrow once I look again at the blue ones! But so far, so good! There were no obvious quitters, I didn't see any blood rings either. Tomorrow will be more enlightening for the blue and green eggs though.

Very exciting!!

 

[TwoCrows]

Okay! We just candled our eggs. I will probably do a second candling tomorrow on the blue/olive eggs as long as my magicfly arrives today like its supposed to, because they were really difficult to see into with the incubator's candler. We were able to identify air cells, and on some we could see a "dark" side (where hopefully the embryo is developing) and a light side of the egg. The brown/cream eggs are always a dream to candle - on every brown egg we saw the little peanut shape and dark eye looking out! Some of them were wiggling which was so exciting to the kiddos (and me)!! I tried to let them each see a blue egg and a brown egg so they could see some development.

I hear mixed advice on frequent candling for various reasons, mostly because more handling = more room for dropping, introducing bacteria, etc. I am super cautious about it though and I really want to check on those blue ones again!

I do apologize, in my excitement I was not able to snap the pictures I was hoping to get.

I will update the list with confirmed embryos shortly, and will edit it again tomorrow once I look again at the blue ones! But so far, so good! There were no obvious quitters, I didn't see any blood rings either. Tomorrow will be more enlightening for the blue and green eggs though.

Candling IS totally over the top exciting, glad the kiddos enjoyed it too, it's such a wonderful way to learn!

 

[2ndTink]

Okay! We just candled our eggs. I will probably do a second candling tomorrow on the blue/olive eggs as long as my magicfly arrives today like its supposed to, because they were really difficult to see into with the incubator's candler. We were able to identify air cells, and on some we could see a "dark" side (where hopefully the embryo is developing) and a light side of the egg. The brown/cream eggs are always a dream to candle - on every brown egg we saw the little peanut shape and dark eye looking out! Some of them were wiggling which was so exciting to the kiddos (and me)!! I tried to let them each see a blue egg and a brown egg so they could see some development.

That's great you saw development! Those dark eggs are pesky, hopefully the new candler will work well on them. If it isn't bright enough, I have used the really high powered flashlights before with a little black foam on them with a hold cut in the foam that you can lightly press the egg into to seal the light under it. You just have to be careful about the heat of the flashlight so it doesn't cook the egg or the light.

I hear mixed advice on frequent candling for various reasons, mostly because more handling = more room for dropping, introducing bacteria, etc. I am super cautious about it though and I really want to check on those blue ones again!

I have had hatches I've candled a ton, and some that I've maybe candled twice, I haven't seen any impact on hatch rate and definitely haven't hatched any two headed purple people eating chicks either. I think if you are careful and don't have the lid off for very long they do fine. Hens do get off the nest so...

I do apologize, in my excitement I was not able to snap the pictures I was hoping to get.

I do this EVERY time

 

[tviss711]

A: @Iluveggers name: Pikachu (? - will recandle)
B: @GodLovesU name: Junior (? - probably, but will recandle)
C: @Sefirothe name: Peaches (? - probably, but will recandle)
D: @Debbie292d name: Pinky Pie (embryo!)
E: @2ndTink name: Pinkie (embryo!)
F: @akroberts1085 name: Froda (? - will recandle)
G: (? - will recandle)
H: (? - will recandle)
I: (? - will recandle)
J: @SunriseChickers name: Justin (? - will recandle)
K: @SunriseChickers name: King (embryo!)
L: @TwoCrows name: Birdie (? - probably, but will recandle)
M: (embryo!)
N: (embryo!)
O: (embryo!)
P: @ABQ chicken keeper name: Peanut (? - will recandle)
Q: @Smokerbill name: Bebop (? - will recandle)
R: @Gazergirlstar name: Pipsqueak (embryo!)
Bonus Egg! S: @GreenJay name: Cashew (embryo! - and was feeling quite dancy at the time of candling!)

 

[SunriseChickers]

Yay, thanks for the update! Excited to see what pops up in the candling. Go little classroom babies!

 

[Iluveggers]

One tip I did w my middle schoolers was putting a blanket over a chair and candling underneath. My classroom has a lot of windows, and when we put the eggs under the covered chair and candle, it was a lot easier to see! I just let a few kids peek at each one so the egg wasn’t out too long. How bright is your classroom?

 

[tviss711]

One tip I did w my middle schoolers was putting a blanket over a chair and candling underneath. My classroom has a lot of windows, and when we put the eggs under the covered chair and candle, it was a lot easier to see! I just let a few kids peek at each one so the egg wasn’t out too long. How bright is your classroom?

I have an entire wall of windows

I did a similar thing today - we put blankets over the sides of a table and candled underneath, two at a time! It’s just a pain because without the magicfly, I had to carefully move the whole incubator under the table to use the candling light! But the magicfly arrived this afternoon, so candling the blue eggs should be MUCH easier and clearer tomorrow!!

 

[Debbie292d]

A: @Iluveggers name: Pikachu (? - will recandle)
B: @GodLovesU name: Junior (? - probably, but will recandle)
C: @Sefirothe name: Peaches (? - probably, but will recandle)
D: @Debbie292d name: Pinky Pie (embryo!)
E: @2ndTink name: Pinkie (embryo!)
F: @akroberts1085 name: Froda (? - will recandle)
G: (? - will recandle)
H: (? - will recandle)
I: (? - will recandle)
J: @SunriseChickers name: Justin (? - will recandle)
K: @SunriseChickers name: King (embryo!)
L: @TwoCrows name: Birdie (? - probably, but will recandle)
M: (embryo!)
N: (embryo!)
O: (embryo!)
P: @ABQ chicken keeper name: Peanut (? - will recandle)
Q: @Smokerbill name: Bebop (? - will recandle)
R: @Gazergirlstar name: Pipsqueak (embryo!)
Bonus Egg! S: @GreenJay name: Cashew (embryo! - and was feeling quite dancy at the time of candling!)

Pinky Pie