Chicken Egg Candler


We ended up with some eggs, so I build a Chicken Egg Incubator. Then I needed some way to determine if the eggs were developing normally. So I built this simple Egg Candler. It's simply a light socket wired up and screwed to a board. I then took a piece of 4" PVC that I had laying around and put it over the light bulb (a 75w CFL) and then taped the pvc to the light socket and taped a thin board on top. The board has a 1" hole in it. So far this has worked great. The eggs were at day 7 and of the 18 found in the barn, 8 of them had obvious veining and movement with a couple others questionable enough to keep for another week.
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