Tips on candling button quail eggs?

[PattieTheDuck]

I am hatching button quail, but I find it difficult to candle the eggs due to their tiny size. Since their shells are so dark and thick, it is hard to get the light to enter the egg. In addition, the eggs are tiny and do not work with my current candling light. Please give me tips besides buying a new candling device!

 

[GodLovesU]

I used the flashlight on my iPhone, and went in my shower to candle them. It got really dark in the shower if I turned all the bathroom lights off.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Just don’t turn on the water…kidding! Don’t worry about trying to see itty bitty veins or embryos, rather candle them every couple days and watch for the growing red black shadow to gradually fill the egg, No growing shadow not a viable egg. Should be completely dark nearing hatch day.

 

[PattieTheDuck]

Just don’t turn on the water…kidding! Don’t worry about trying to see itty bitty veins or embryos, rather candle them every couple days and watch for the growing red black shadow to gradually fill the egg, No growing shadow not a viable egg. Should be completely dark nearing hatch day.

Alright, but some of my eggs are too dark so I cannot see anything at all inside either. What would I do for those?

 

[PattieTheDuck]

I used the flashlight on my iPhone, and went in my shower to candle them. It got really dark in the shower if I turned all the bathroom lights off.

My phone flashlight is not the greatest when it comes to candling eggs…

 

[PattieTheDuck]

Today I tried candling the eggs, but it was extremely difficult to see into even the lightest colored egg, and the egg was extremely dark even though it is only day 5

 

[PattieTheDuck]

Update here: 7 ended up hatching, but in another thread, I am asking for advice beccause one of them seems to ahve hatched with its brain outside of its head.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Probably a hydrocephalus, a hole in the skull allows cerebrospinal fluid to form a large mass on the head, could also be anencephaly which is a mess with missing skull, brain, or other stuff, birth defects happen even in birds, not much you can do about it to prevent or fix.

 

[PattieTheDuck]

Probably a hydrocephalus, a hole in the skull allows cerebrospinal fluid to form a large mass on the head, could also be anencephaly which is a mess with missing skull, brain, or other stuff, birth defects happen even in birds, not much you can do about it to prevent or fix.

oh thanks for identifying it.