Originally posted this to the wrong place. I hope I am posting it to the right place, now.
My family raised chickens (among many other animals) when I was a child. If the hens wouldn't stay put, we would use an incubator. However, we never "candled" them.
Long story short...I am finally back in the countryside, where I belong, and returning to the homesteader lifestyle of my roots.
So anyway, now that I am incubating chicks, again, I decided I wanted to try candling.
We had a batch of 16, but they are probably dead due to an accidental bump of the temp to 109.8°. Then our area hit a random cold spell. 2 nights into the spell (mid-upper 30's) we found 16 more eggs under my car! I brought them in, and let them come to room temp. Then slowly up to the incubator temp. During this process, I labeled, and candled each one. I wasn't sure if they would be dead due to the cold or unknown age. Nearly every one of them had a red ring in it. I googled it. Every source says bad egg, but the pics on those sites show a red ring around the whole egg. Mine had a ring the size of the ring on my finger floating in them, yesterday. This morning the ring looked like a red spiderweb. Tonight they have what looks like a tiny shrimp tail in them. Then, in my research, I read about bad eggs exploding. (Which never happened to ours back in the day.)
So my question...is this more likely to be the development process or the decay process?
I am not sure if I should be sad they are dead, fearful that they may be "bombs", or excited that they are alive. LoL
My family raised chickens (among many other animals) when I was a child. If the hens wouldn't stay put, we would use an incubator. However, we never "candled" them.
Long story short...I am finally back in the countryside, where I belong, and returning to the homesteader lifestyle of my roots.
So anyway, now that I am incubating chicks, again, I decided I wanted to try candling.
We had a batch of 16, but they are probably dead due to an accidental bump of the temp to 109.8°. Then our area hit a random cold spell. 2 nights into the spell (mid-upper 30's) we found 16 more eggs under my car! I brought them in, and let them come to room temp. Then slowly up to the incubator temp. During this process, I labeled, and candled each one. I wasn't sure if they would be dead due to the cold or unknown age. Nearly every one of them had a red ring in it. I googled it. Every source says bad egg, but the pics on those sites show a red ring around the whole egg. Mine had a ring the size of the ring on my finger floating in them, yesterday. This morning the ring looked like a red spiderweb. Tonight they have what looks like a tiny shrimp tail in them. Then, in my research, I read about bad eggs exploding. (Which never happened to ours back in the day.)
So my question...is this more likely to be the development process or the decay process?
I am not sure if I should be sad they are dead, fearful that they may be "bombs", or excited that they are alive. LoL
