Question about candling eggs.

delsi64

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I have my first batch of eggs in my LG incubator. I candled them last night. In some of them I saw the veins and a black spot and it was moving around.

My question is that in some I didn't see clear through, but it was a consistant like cloudy color. Is it safe to assume that these aren't good and that I should throw them away?

Another question is that in some I saw the black spot but I also saw a thin red line that went around the whole egg in like a circle. would that be a vein or infection? What should I do about those?

Last question is I am trying really hard to keep my humidity up (It has always been 43-55 % but it looks like that in some eggs, I see liquid moving around more easily than others. Is this normal? Is my humidity ok?

As a side note my neighbor has a small bird that has made a nest in the gravel driveway of his home. She just formed the nest out of rocks and pulled some strings out of our trampoline (all the birds found out our trampoline pad has strings in it and they are picking it to death) She just sits out there in the rain and sun. No shelter. No protection. She squawks whenever anyone gets near. Out neighbor put big rocks around it so they won't run over it. It looks pretty funny, but I am sure they won't make it because of all the cats and small animals around here. It is really interesting given all the trees she could have choosen. I wish I could help them but I wouldn't know what to do with a baby birds.
 
I don't have an answer to your question and I hope you don't mind. If someone answers your question maybe they can answer mine at the same time. Is it really necessary to candle eggs?
 
You don't have to candle eggs if you keep an eye on them. If an egg starts to do somthing weird, weeping for instance, pull it out of the incubator. Typically, that will not happen until after day 14.

Personally, I prefer to candle them around day 12 - it takes a lot of the guesswork out of the procedure. If you candle too soon, you are trying to figure out clouds, lines, veins and whatnot. Just wait a couple more days and everything will be very clear. You will know in 2 seconds if the egg is viable or not. The most important thing is keeping the incubator closed and the heat on.
 
I hope this helps...

As for the wild bird outside. It may be a Kill Dear and they lay on the ground. They will probably be fine. I'd let them be. If you touch them she will leave and they won't have a chance for sure.

Candling. We candled last night. This is our second hatch and we didn't candle the first. It was so cool to see all the movement and the different egg insides. Out of 41 eggs...we have 12 for sures, some unsures and a bunch of duds. What we did was mark the duds with x's, marked the posibles with P's and marked the yes ones with Y's. My husband wants to keep the duds in there to help with the heat in the bator...I'm indulging him.
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The cloudy ones...I'd say are duds. The black spots and veins...look to see if they are moving. If not...let me know because I have four of those.

I don't understand this humidity thing. I keep my trays full and let the bator work. I got 3 alive out of 5 eggs in the last hatch. One died before hatching and the other wasn't fertil. We open and close the bator too. I'm not sure about all these "rules". Do what feels right.
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Sounds like a kill deer. My DD just had a huge fight with her best friend and neighbor because he would not leave a kill deer nest alone and broke an egg. I have never seen her so mad at him!!! She still hasn't spoken to him yet and it's been a couple of days now. She's a little animal lover, and that was just going to far I guess LOL.
 
We have an egg that seems to always be wet, we tried candling and see a small blob but nothing large. We have 10 days to go, should I assume this is a bad egg?
 

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