Day 7 - Candling Eggs

Today we got to see what was happening on the inside of our chicken and duck eggs! To candle an egg you hold the egg over a special light and look for development. As you can see we could see veins, the beginnings of a chick, and in some eggs we even saw movement! We had over 2 dozen eggs to candle and have less than 5 that we think are duds! We may be busy little mama hens in a couple of weeks!

Days 1-5

So far we have put the chicken eggs in the incubators and began to watch them carefully.  We are also watching a few duck eggs.  We have noticed that the duck eggs are bigger than the chicken eggs.  Some of the chicken eggs are white, brown, and even green.  We will continue watching the eggs for the next 16 days!