How to candle dark shelled eggs?

[evonne]

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rofl.. i was about to say.. "is that a slide projector??"

that's awsome.... i'll have to watch thrift stores..

 

[Happy Chooks]

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please let me know if this light works for the dark eggs... i can't see diddly in my greens... the light just doesn't even penetrate.....
i'd like to be able to pull out quiters to make room in case i accidentally get more eggs in the mail.... lol...

Well, send me some green eggs and I'll test it out for you.

I'll let you know. I'll be hatching in early spring.

 

[evonne]

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please let me know if this light works for the dark eggs... i can't see diddly in my greens... the light just doesn't even penetrate.....
i'd like to be able to pull out quiters to make room in case i accidentally get more eggs in the mail.... lol...

Well, send me some green eggs and I'll test it out for you.

I'll let you know. I'll be hatching in early spring.

lol... give me 2 weeks notice in the spring and i'll see if i can send ya a couple... depending on when in the spring, and if my luck holds out.. i may have soemthing that hatches into an olive egger.... granted, wont know it's an olive egger till it gets old enough to lay.. lol.. but i'll need a couple people willing to hatch those and keep em for a while...

 

[aalbury]

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O - is there more detail on that somewhere?

My DH is in HVAC. I have tons of that tape! Is the bottom hole large? Why the space between bottom and top? does it matter how much space?

 

[aalbury]

OK - got the flashlight, still could only see a dark spot on the green and blue eggs....went and got a 105 lumen LED, still could only see a shadow.....building the device with the spot light. The good news though is that only one of the australorp eggs are no good!

New question, perhaps for a new thread, but..... I couldn't take a decent photo..... I turned off the flash and it did not show true (too dark). I must fiddle with the fstop?

 

[Butchers Wife]

Here's what I use for Marans eggs:

I work in an office building, and sent an e-mail to the building maintenance dept., asking them to watch for any old slide projectors being thrown out. Less than a week later, they brought this honkin' heavy thing up to my desk. DH built a little wooden box for it so that the lens points up toward the ceiling, and I took an old washrag, folded it over and cut a small oval-shaped hole in it, then rubber-banded the washrag over the lens. It works great, and it was free!

OMG! I have one of those! It's stored with the ancestral family photos under the bed in the room where I have my incubator setup. I've literally been sitting on that bed trying to use a flashlight on pheasant eggs. It's like candling rocks! Thank you so much for sharing!
My candling until now has mostly only shown me if an egg is fertilized. I'm multi-hatching 450 pheasant eggs set to pop out about 100 chicks every Sunday. The most recent additions are triple stacked in our diy cabinet incubator. I'm waiting for this week's hatch to finish up to free up space so I can spread them all out properly. I'm turning by hand so you can probably imagine that it's been getting pretty complicated in there. It works and it's almost free but This Changes Everything!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I use two methods to candle, I have a small mag lite with a piece of rubber hose slipped over the end. Make sure there is a even cut on the hose, use sand paper on flat surface. Then hold the light to the large end with the air sack in a dark room. You may not see veins but your egg should turn dark after a couple weeks and you will be able to see movement. I also use a box with the 100w bulb inside, drill a few air holes on top to vent. The candle hole is actually on the side with a short piece of PVC pipe to help keep the heat away from the egg. Again use the light in a dark room and candle the large end holding the egg horizontally. With the second method I can see veins even with brown eggs.

Can we get a picture of this set-up? In daylight?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Can we get a picture of this set-up? In daylight?

Doh! Just realuzed this is sn OLD thread!