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However, it’s not the only Easter-themed offering Yankee has introduced this year – you might prefer the equally sweet but rather less cocoa-ey Sweet Bunny Treats candle, with hints of lemon sugar, frothed milk, cake batter, allspice and vanilla. Sunny Daydream: Drift away among the flowers with the warm, sweet scents of exotic ylang ylang, bergamot and jasmine. The blend is actually more complex than you might expect from the initial description – top notes of chocolate mousse pudding and cocoa aside, it’s tempered by a hit of fruity cranberry, before sugar and vanilla extract are added to give that distinctive finish.

The exception to this is if I have hatching problems that I suspect are caused by incorrect incubation humidity, then I will mark the size of the air sac onto the eggshell using a soft pencil and compare it with a known good egg. To be honest, a small ultra-bright torch is all you need, you can use your hand between the egg and torch to make a good seal. During incubation, candling an egg allows you to see the developing embryo inside the shell and provides a way to remove non-viable eggs. The embryo has grown significantly, and the eye is usually visible (the darkest ‘blob’ you see in the egg). Some books suggest candling eggs at 18 days; however, I don’t usually look at them again after 14 days.One idea is to practice candling light eggs first or incubate with lighter coloured eggs, and then you have a comparison. There are digits on the feet, the heart enclosed in the thoracic cavity, and the embryo starts to look more like a chick. Sometimes, I find it challenging to identify a quitter, especially if it’s only the embryo that’s cloudy and not the whole egg.

A ‘viable egg’ is fertile, and we hope it will develop into an embryo in the incubator and eventually hatch into a chick.In this article, there are more than 20 images and video clips with detailed explanations, so you should be able to get a good idea of what to look for when candling your eggs. So if you’re hoping to snap one up as an Easter Sunday gift, we’d highly suggest doing so sooner rather than later. The term ‘egg candling’ comes from the past before electric light bulbs when people used candles for light. With practice, you will identify fertile eggs by the dark dot, the embryo and the spider-like blood veins spreading out around the egg. Dark shelled eggs (Such as Marans or Welsummer Eggs) are much harder to see through, so you will need the brightest light source you can get.

We can all agree that the greatest smells on earth are freshly-made bread, just-washed bedsheets and opening a bag of Mini Eggs. Next time you crack open an egg, look carefully for a small white patch on the surface of the yolk about 3mm in size. You can candle again after 14 days but not after you’ve stopped turning your eggs during the last few days before they hatch. I have tested several egg candlers, and in summary, I would not waste money on some of the cheap imported versions. If you’re still not seeing it clearly, then it’s best to wait another day or two before trying again.Eventually, the chick will fill almost all of the space inside the egg, and the air sac will increase further in size (see the diagrams below).