How do you candle eggs and what are you looking for?

[Shewter325]

So I have only had one clutch before the one I found this morning and I didn't do all the specific things with my first clutch. I kinda just put them in the incubator and waited to see what happened. But with this second clutch I wanted to candle the eggs but I'm not very sure how to do that. Anyone willing to help a new breeder out?

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[1nstinct]

dark room, take a flash light put on egg, watch it light up, just like putting your thumb on the end of a flash light.. you should be able to see veins going across the egg.

[Bill T]

take a bright flashlight and hold it against the egg on the opsite side of the egg facing yourself. u are looking for blood veins. that means you should have a healthy fertile egg.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Take your eggs out when dark of go in a dark room, and use a small LED flashlight (they work great for egg)

What you are looking for are good healthy veins like this

[Shewter325]

Hey so where do you find the material that separates the eggs from the substrate? And also my female has one egg inside her that she can't get out, do I need to help her or will she push it out eventually?

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