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Originally Posted by piptickle  Yeah! If people are interested, I'll update as they grow! The scope attaches to the incubator, with chicken/duck eggs you can actually see the chick developing inside the egg! But it did'nt work when I tried it with the quail eggs! Candling is basically holdind a torch (you can buy special candler torches) up against the egg so you can see whats happening inside. After so long (a weekish) if the egg is fertile you should be able to make out the shadow of an embryo!
I have made a mixture of ground chick crumbs,ground dried ferret food(high protein) and finch seed. In a week or so thye can have finely chopped fresh greens too and as they grow small mealworms and other tiny feeder insects. I won't need to ground the food as they get bigger and at 5-6 weeks they move onto layers pellets for game birds aswell as greens/insects/finch seed and millet! I have to fill the water bowl with marbles too as for a week or so after hatching they have the urge to get into water  and would either end up drowning or get so wet they would develop pneumonia and die. While the marbles are there they can drink from the tiny gaps without being able to submerge themseleves! |
I'm definitely interested and I'm sure there are probably others too... I hope anyway so you carry on posting. That's cool you can get things that can see into the egg. I bet this is great for your kids to learn and watch.
That's a clever idea about the marbles, wouldn't want anything to happen to the little babies.