My Hatching Journey: the Adventures of a Complete Newbie

[BantyChooks]

Candle results 2/6/16

Candled 15, 2 blood rings (confirmed by cracking) and one with veins and another with a moving black dot. The rest were all pretty clear, no obvious veining, but nothing saying they were not alive. Down to 13, 8 BSL and 5 EE.

The one with the blood ring I had accidentally put upside down. It was a very round egg. When I cracked it, I could see eyes on the embryo. The other blood ring was just a ring and no baby. Sorry, I didn't get picturess of the dead ones. On another EE, there was a light ring ish thing, but I left it as I was not sure that it was not veins.
The one with definite veining is a EE, the mover is a BSL.

END TALLY- 13 eggs left, 5 EE and 8 BSL
Veins: hard to see, but there.


The ones with blood rings:

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Did my candle, 2 blood rings (confirmed by cracking) and one with veins and another with a moving black dot. The rest were all pretty clear, no obvious veining, but nothing saying they were not alive. Down to 13, 8 BSL and 5 EE.

The one with the blood ring I had accidentally put upside down, (

) it was a very round egg. BUT, when I cracked it, I could see eyes on the embryo! Sad, but very cool. The other blood ring was just a ring and no baby. Sorry, I didn't get pics of the dead ones. On another EE, there was a light ring ish thing, but I left it as I was not sure that it was not veins.
The one with definite veining is a EE, the mover is a BSL.
Pics:


Veins!!! Very hard to se, but they are there!

The ones with blood rings:

sweets, your light may not be enough to see them this early. let them in and keep on trucking.... This is the neighbors roo that you took in that covers your hens ? Have you cracked any eggs open and check fertility before hatch? I will assume so because your eating them

 

[BantyChooks]

sweets, your light may not be enough to see them this early. let them in and keep on trucking.... This is the neighbors roo that you took in that covers your hens ? Have you cracked any eggs open and check fertility before hatch? I will assume so because your eating them

That's what I figured, so I left all of them that didn't have blood rings.
No, the roosters are Bubbles and Pebbles, she ended up keeping the other boy as she found a better coop.

Yes, I have seen almost 100% fertility recently.

I A.) have no idea what I am looking for, and B.) the egg shells are really darker than I should have tried for my first hatch. Anyway, I saw some life, so I'm happy.

 

[FridayYet]

Colored eggs are definitely harder to see in! One thing that helps is letting your eyes get used to the dark for a couple minutes before you candle.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Have a look again at these candles, see my note about incubating upright, see how light the veins are when the embryo sits on the top at the air cell? I will add, another reason I like to incubate sideways, for some reason my brain tells me its better to have the embryo down in the egg than so close to that air cell.....

although turning is a big issues with incubating too, and if you cant do it way more than 3x a day, use the turner yeppers!!

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[Sally Sunshine]

oh crap!! I put that in the day 6 candle I did!!

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sorry, my bad and these are not even blue or green eggs

 

[BantyChooks]

These images show a bit more what the egg with veins in it looked like.

 

[BantyChooks]

Colored eggs are definitely harder to see in! One thing that helps is letting your eyes get used to the dark for a couple minutes before you candle.

Thanks for the tip.

 

[BantyChooks]

Have a look again at these candles, see my note about incubating upright, see how light the veins are when the embryo sits on the top at the air cell? I will add, another reason I like to incubate sideways, for some reason my brain tells me its better to have the embryo down in the egg than so close to that air cell..... although turning is a big issues with incubating too, and if you cant do it way more than 3x a day, use the turner yeppers!!

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I doubt I would be around the house enough to hand turn, but maybe once life calms down a bit.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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I know we discussed this quite a few times before

candles look great!