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bwaffa
at Thu Jul 8 17:25:12 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bwaffa ]
Candling them this late in the game certainly won't hurt, but it probably won't be diagnostic of viability or birth defects. In my experience, candling is useful to determine whether there is (or is not) an embryo, and whether it is actually growing, into the first few weeks. I don't know anything about candling bird eggs, but by the time most birth defects would be visible in a snake egg, the embryo is usually large enough that the egg just appears dark and opaque under the light.
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RE: ARGGGH! - bwaffa, Thu Jul 8 17:25:12 2010