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FR
at Wed Jul 6 09:06:23 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
First I never said theres anything wrong with candling, I just do not seen the point. There are lots of different kinds of eggs, with some eggs, torts/chickens, etc, an infertile egg looks exactly like a fertile egg. In these cases, yes candling is useful.
With snake eggs, its very obvious which are unfertile and which are fertile. I am positive you understand this, don't you? There are tweeners, and if someone said, the egg they candled was one of those, I would understand. Isn't this all about understanding?
I would imagine, the task for newbies would be to learn the difference between good eggs and bad eggs, its very very simple.
If someone said, I candle eggs to learn and view how the embryo progresses, I would say, wonderful(and it is)
The whole exercise is to converse about eggs, yet all it comes to is, agree or disagree or right or wrong, when again you know, its far more then that.
I asked if candling can make a bad or dead egg get better, no one would answer that, except you, thank you. I asked if candling can harm an egg, the answer is yes it can. But I do agree with you, strong eggs are "strong" after all, they do squeeze thru the females bum.
I had hoped the conversation would have led to how to tell the difference without interfering with the egg. But of course you also know, people are a bit too insecure to do that.
I know you understand that on these forums, you are always wrong, no matter what you do, someone will feel much better by telling you how wrong you are. Crossing/hybrids are wrong, candling is wrong, hibernating/brumating is wrong, this is wrong, that is wrong, etc etc. The truth is, none of it is right or wrong, that is after you get past the keeping a wild animal in a box. That has to be wrong but we will deal with that in our next lives. Or killing all those mice, oh yea.
So Henry, how often do you candle eggs now? Thanks for playing, FR
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RE: Heres the point - FR, Wed Jul 6 09:06:23 2005