when to candle??

[mstricer]

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I think if one rotten egg is going to kill a chick then its going to affect all. I don't think candling can tell you that there is a rotten egg. only that there is no growth, for me I can't tell anything until past day 10, which would mean that if there is a rotten egg wouldn't have already affected the other chicks.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I don't know that I haven't lost a egg here an there to an infection from another egg. Cant know any more than someone else can know that they did lose some that way. I dont fret over getting 100% hatches every time. What I do know is that my hatch rate does not go down because I didn't throw out quitters. Even the times I didn't catch smelly ones until they were bubbling green slime out of there pores I didn't see a change in hatch rate.


If I cant see a change in my hatch rates then its not worth me worrying about.

 

[Hackmatack Ridge Farm]

I don't think candling can tell you that there is a rotten egg. only that there is no growth, for me I can't tell anything until past day 10, which would mean that if there is a rotten egg wouldn't have already affected the other chicks.

When candling it is posable to tell if there is a roten one. It takes parctice but can be done. I always take the dead ones out before they start to rot. If an egg is rotting it will look cloudy inside and you will not see any veins in the egg just a cloudy mass. The more rotten it becomes the less you will be able to see through it. Not only dose a rotten egg spread bacteria to healthy eggs but the bacteria also uses up alot of the oxygen in the incubator leaving less for the growing eggs.​

 

[gumbii]

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thanks... i have a couple of blood ring eggs in my bator... i didn't know what they looked like, so i left them in... thanks for putting up the link... i'm gonna go throw them out...