The First Candling

We finally candled the eggs that are in the incubator.  The eggs have been in the incubator for 7 days and the eggs themselves are between 10 and 14 days old.  I'm no expert when it comes to candling but I know we should be able to see some solid forms inside the eggs at this point.  While we did see some signs of life. we didn't see very many.

We candled the New Hampshire eggs first.

Egg #1 definitely showed signs of life.  The dark mass in this picture was moving around, coming closer to the shell and then back towards the center.  We also saw some of the lines that I believe are veins.  It was a good start to our candling adventure.

Egg 1

Egg two didn't continue the great streak.  While we saw a shadow spot, I'm not sure that it was an embryo.

Egg 2

Egg 3 showed a better sign of an embryo.

Egg 3

 Egg 4 didn't look too great either

Egg 4

 And then egg 8 was looking the least viable.  Eggs 5-7 are under the broody girl in the coop.

Egg 8

Then we moved on to the Silver Laced Wynadotte eggs.

We only saw the embryo dot in a few of these ones so it doesn't look like we will have that great of a hatch rate but I won't pull any of them out of the incubator this soon.

Hopefully I will have a chance to get into the coop to candle the eggs under the broody girl.

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