Entry #32: Candling, RIP Dumbledore

4/21/13
11:10 pm

OH MY GOSH. Candling is the cooooolest thing ever! It's so simple too!

Basically what I do is that I take the Flashlight app on my phone (crazy that I can do this with an app) and I put it behind the egg while I'm holding it and I can see the silhouette of the chick inside. It's crazy!

Usually this technique is done with a candle (or flashlight) hence the name. But I decided to just try my phone app and it really worked!!

 

So that is me candling the egg. You can't really see the silhouette in that photo. That egg is Katniss, and I did notice some veins, but I didn't see the dark silhouette spot of the embryo developing so I'm a little nervous about her.

Alright I'm not really sure why the photo is upside down and I'm not sure how to fix it but I made it extra large so you guys can clearly see the dark spot in the middle. That right there is little Peeta in there:)

I couldn't be more thrilled about how they're all doing. Some eggs I could only see veins running throughout them, but most I could see the little dark spot, and an even darker spot within the dark spot which is there eye developing!! Suuuuper cool.

Sadly, only one egg has nothing inside it, no veins, no dark spot, and that's Dumbledore. Poor little guy didn't even develop. Maybe he wasn't even fertilized. Who knows, but I'm still keeping him in the incubator, I don't know if I have the heart to just toss him out.

I am a little nervous about the ones that I don't see the dark spot in, but all the rest at least have veins so that is a good sign! I need to determine which ones have the dark spot and which ones don't and then record that in my blog to see which ones hatch and which ones don't. Or which ones hatch later, because that's also a possibility.

So now I'm definitely down to 11 little chickies. Which, yeah I knew that all of them wouldn't survive...I just hope Dumbledore is the only one to go:(

RIP Little guy.