Our process for candling is pretty easy. We take a flashlight and tape a toilet paper tube to the top of it (over the light). We place the eggs one by one (very carefully because there are developing babies in there!) on top of the tube in the dark and this allows the inside of the eggs to light up and glow. In the picture here, you can see the dark spot on the top of the egg...this is our developing baby chick! The mass below it, I think is the yolk, which the chick will slowly absorb while it is developing. This is how it gets all its nutrients. We were able to see movement, veinage (the growth of veins all around the top half of the eggs) masses and dark spots in almost all of our eggs. Some of our eggs had darker shells so we couldn't see that well in all of them, but we are feeling much more certain that we WILL have chicks in two weeks.
I'm SO happy and excited!!!
Happy happy happy!
-Broadway Gal
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