What is the best Egg Candler?

[loanwizard]

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As a general rule, no. Leave them sit. Candle day 7 and 14. For a project or to teach people here, once a day is good (from what I have read). Mama hen leaves for a short while.

 

[ChicksinFL]

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As a general rule, no. Leave them sit. Candle day 7 and 14. For a project or to teach people here, once a day is good (from what I have read). Mama hen leaves for a short while.

Thank you for the answer. We are only going to have 12-18 eggs depending how many make it thru the mail. So candling them wouldn't take forever, the girls would just have to be all set up before the incubator was opened. I've been keeping a good eye on it this time around we've only candled a couple times and our incubator gets the temp right back up in about 15 min's after closing it back up tight.

 

[Dreamtime]

I have a Maglight LED and it works great even on brown and dark green eggs. It puts out over 100 lums. I'm remembering it being around 35-40 dollars at a home box store.

I also had on hand a Maglight accessory kit that had a rubber protective cap that slips on the end of the flashlight. The cap makes a flexible yet tight seal that conforms to the egg so there is no light leakage! The combo of the cool LED light and the rubber accessory cap make it almost seam like it was designed especially for egg candling it works so well.

With this light with the rubber cap I dont even have remove the eggs from the egg turner for a quick candling. Ive become a bit of a candling minimalist, once at day 5-7 once at lockdown unless there is a suspected issue egg. the lest touching and handling the better for these clumsy hands.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

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Cardboard boxes work excellent. We had eggs with blotchy shells so a led light wasn't enough. Used a construction halide under box with small hole cut in it. Could see into any egg then. Though a normal light bulb would be enough for most eggs.

 

[mandelyn]

I use a mini maglight LED flashlight and only candle when it's dark out. Not sure what the lumens are but it can show through a Marans egg enough to see if it's at least viable.