'candling' Eggs Using A Camera And Computer.
Last year I had an article published in Cage and Aviary explaining how I came to candle eggs taking a photograph of the eggs in the nest (no flash used) then using a programme on the computer I was able to see which egg were fertile.
There is a post already on the forum explaining how I did this. This is a link to it Cage&aviarybirds 24Th July Issue
I have now tried out a different sequence in the candling and this produced new images which has made me want to search for further information re what the images represent. (This is in process at the moment)
I'll share the new images with you and would be grateful for your comments -positive or negative both welcome (lol)
The eggs I candled were from my Gouldian's nest. I was almost 100% certain that the eggs would be not be fertile as the hen is young and not fully coloured up yet but they have been incubating the eggs both taking turns on the nest. I was surprised to find that two look to be fertile.
The eggs were photographed on the 25th November 2014
I 'candled' the photograph to show both methods showing the two fertile eggs. I have cropped some of the images to make them larger.
The final 6 photographs: 5 of them were from the Owl Finches (Bicheno ) nest, this shows the order in which they were laid The first image shows all the eggs in the nest then I cropped each egg to show it on its own. The final image is a budgie's egg just to compare with the others.
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