what am I seeing??

[SueMuffin]

I have Maran eggs that are chocolate brown, and Olive eggs in my bator. I can not see thru either of them when I candle them. Any one have a solution, I have used powerful lights and still cant see into them. would the color of the eggs keep me from seeing veins?

 

[they'reHISchickens]

Yes, the blue color goes clear through the shell and makes them opaque. Marans are almost as bad. I had best luck by waiting until 14 days or even lockdown and then guessed! A completely dark room at night and the strongest lumen flashlight you can find also help. I just started a batch today and added 4 RIR crosses just so I had something to candle early on!

 

[koakritters]

i think the shell is just too dark to tell on these brown ones, i can't find a brighter light and this one's pretty bright! I can tell which ones do not have anything inside them, but the rest??? i'll have to try again tomorrow night and see. the ones that have a moving black dot inside them are the ones i'm happiest about right now lol. there's SOMETHING inside at least!...

 

[koakritters]

so i just realised last night my thermometer wasn't looking right, and put a different one in there, turns out they've only been at 96 the whole time! New one in, now at 99.7-100.1 keeps fluctuating between there. Is it possible that they just wern't developing as fast as they should have which i why i don't see anything??? I candled them this morning and I think I might have seen some very very faint veins in one, and the rest the little black spot is getting bigger!!!