Chicken Egg Candling Day 4

This is a video of me candling one of my eggs on the 4th day of incubation. Candling means shining a bright light through the egg to see the embryonic development.

Date Taken: 10/7/09

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• incubation
• egg
• chicken
• candling
• embryo
• day
• four
• development
• incubator
• incubate
• eggs
• hatch
• hatching
• chick
• candle
• education

[lena11041]

where did u get the light i really need one and is there always a bird in the egg

[URAbunnylover2]

@lena11041 I got the light at a hardware store. It's an LED flashlight and its very bright. Not all eggs have a bird in them. Only fertilized eggs are hatch-able, so get your eggs from a farm that has chickens and roosters. Do not buy the eggs from a grocery store. Those will not hatch at all.

[vruble500]

i candled mine on the 4rth day it looked exactly like that. not its the 19th day and i cant tell if theres anything in there anymore, i dont know if they died or what?

[URAbunnylover2]

@vruble500 If it looks almost all dark except for a pouch of air on one side, that means it's alive.

[vruble500]

@URAbunnylover2 ohk thank you but i have another question will an chick start peeping in an egg before its born?

[URAbunnylover2]

@vruble500 sometimes it does and sometimes it doesnt. But usually it peeps about half a day before pipping the shell

[acomputernerd101]

Please check out a vid i just posted. I cant tell if the egg is fertile or not. Thank you!!!!

[acomputernerd101]

I have a brown egg and im not sure its fertile. I heard that on the third day you can see the veins does it mean the egg is infertile??

[lena11041]

when will the babies start cheeping

[vruble500]

@URAbunnylover2 ok thank you so much:) today is the 19th hopefully they will hatch:]