setting eggs on Thurs. Hatch date Feb 4th-who's with me??

[Joyryder]

Okay, expert advice needed. What do you use to candle dark eggs like marans etc. And when you candle - do you candle from the top or the bottom? I have a small LED flashlight. I have trouble looking through silkie eggs. The clear ones are obvious, but I cant see clearly into the others, I candled at the bottom, because I didn't want to flip the egg over or on its side. Its day 10 - should I remove clear ones. Thanks.

 

[sonew123]

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I have a home made candeler DH and I made. We took a coffee can and cut a hole in bottom large enough for a light cord to go threw. it fits a 75 whatt bulb then we cut out a circle piece of wood with a hole about the size of a silkie egg. We duck taped that to the top of can. SO I plug it in and it sits on table where bator is.I pull eggs out in the same way they are in turner-the light is so bright I can see through any dark egg AT day 10 if there are obvious clear ones-I mean totally clear out they go. I had day 10 Sat and took out 8...If you have a small light hold the egg pointy end down and put the light on the very bottom looking up into it-you should be able to see everything

 

[Buckhorn Farm]

Results from this weekend, first candle. Ones that say alive...were jumping LOL!!! Hope all is going well with everyone else!


Maran too dark
Maran possible veining
Maran too dark
Maran clear looking
Maran clear looking
Maran possible veining
Maran definite veining
Maran clear looking
Maran clear looking
Maran possible veining
Maran clear looking
Maran possible veining
mix definite veining
mix definite veining
mix clear looking
mix ALIVE!
mix possible veining
mix definite veining
mix ALIVE!
mix clear looking
mix clear looking
mix clear looking
mix definite veining
mix ALIVE!

 

[AmyJ]

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I have a home made candeler DH and I made. We took a coffee can and cut a hole in bottom large enough for a light cord to go threw. it fits a 75 whatt bulb then we cut out a circle piece of wood with a hole about the size of a silkie egg. We duck taped that to the top of can. SO I plug it in and it sits on table where bator is.I pull eggs out in the same way they are in turner-the light is so bright I can see through any dark egg AT day 10 if there are obvious clear ones-I mean totally clear out they go. I had day 10 Sat and took out 8...If you have a small light hold the egg pointy end down and put the light on the very bottom looking up into it-you should be able to see everything

Thats a great idea Natalie! I think I will have to try that

I have a little pen light and its works ok, but sometimes its hard to see everything. The d uccle eggs are easy to see, but my brown ones are a little more difficult sometimes.

 

[Joyryder]

Thanks Natalie, What do you do with the discarded clear eggs. Can they be fed back to the hens?

 

[sonew123]

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Nope I put in a ziplock if totally clear and open the ones that have blood rings or stopped growing to see what happened? they all go in ziplocks pee youuu and runny--

 

[AmyJ]

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Nope I put in a ziplock if totally clear and open the ones that have blood rings or stopped growing to see what happened? they all go in ziplocks pee youuu and runny--

Thats what I do too. Dont want the chance of a rotten egg!!!!

 

[Joyryder]

Thanks so glad I asked!

 

[dsmoosecountry]

Just candled 8 of my original 9 eggs (this is my first attempt at incubating eggs!). I have 7 definite little swimmers in there! One is a bit clear, but not sure, and one I tossed a few days ago, it was clear with a big crack in the shell. I'm going to try and take some pics of the little guys tonight.

 

[dsmoosecountry]

Here's a video of one of the embryos jumpin around in the egg

Here's some pics of my homemade incubator. It's based off of Miss Prissys cooler bator. I call it the Igloobaor.

Here's my simple egg turner. It's a small piece of luane board with a 1" dowel rod screwed to the bottom. I drilled four small holes and glued four small dowels to fit in the holes in the egg carton I placed on top. It works pretty well, and it was cheap!