Topic of the Week - Candling Eggs

[Ponypoor]

Absolutely!! You can candle the eggs everyday if you wish, while your broody is off the nest. I have a fabulous mama that just hatched out 100% of her setting eggs. I even candled one egg while it was pipping! Just handle the eggs very gently and avoid turning them from end to end, throughout the 21 day process.

Yes I also candled my broody hens egg when it was piping into the air sack! Amazing to see the chick working away, next day I had a chicks and the second egg soon after - I candled almost daily my mama is amazing (silkie you know )

 

[TarikNecefli]

This is my Candling image from day 10 in the 35 Egg incubator.

 

[casportpony]

This is my Candling image from day 10 in the 35 Egg incubator.

Looking good!

 

[chicken opey]

Would someone help me w what I’m seeing?
Day 9
There was only one I could see nothing in the rest had dark shadows and only one I could see veins. Are the ones w shadows fertilized?

 

[janiedoe]

Would someone help me w what I’m seeing?
Day 9
There was only one I could see nothing in the rest had dark shadows and only one I could see veins. Are the ones w shadows fertilized?

The first two look like the shadows are from the chicks. I can't tell if the 3rd is developing slower or not at all.

 

[oncebefore]

I use a miner’s headlamp plus a flash light encased in cut out boxes to see through dark/thick shelled eggs. Pictures below taken at 6.5 days: Brown egg, blue egg, and a Trader Joe’s white egg. And the headlamp. I did notice the lamp surface gets somewhat hot so only candle briefly and/or on the air cell end. Hopefully no damages done. I have a small simple DIY incubator.
I’m a civil engineer so the headlamp is from my project site investigation for pitch black underground structures.

My curiosity makes me candle daily! To see the amazingly rapid chicken embryonic development, and sometimes the unfortunate end of it.