Hatching Eggs Unit Study

Candling Eggs

I never even knew about the word "candling" until we started this project. It's been tremenous fun tracking the process of our eggs, sorting the fertile from the infertile, and spotting our first little embryo "dancing" around inside his little home.

Here are some interesting pictures of candled eggs to start with:

Day 4 below

Day 5 below

The above pictures are all avaiable from the links below. The "Chickscope" site is a superb resource.

http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/day01/candled.html