We candled our eggs!

After researching, we learned that candling eggs happens when you hold a light up to the eggs to see what's inside.

We have some exciting news and some possible sad news after candling our eggs today.

Our prediction is that all of runner ducks are fertile but that none of our Pekin eggs have babies inside. Below are some pictures as we candled the eggs!

All of the veins shows us that there is a baby growing inside!!

Notice the dark spot close to the bottom is the baby duck! 

Can you tell that the first three have baby ducklings inside and the last one is just a yolk. 

After candling, the students journaled about the experience in their journal.

"We go into the bathroom and we looked inside the egg!  I saw veins and the baby."

"We looked inside the baby duck."

"Today, we candled the eggs.  We saw veins in a flashlight."

"Candling the eggs was cool!  We got to see veins!  We got a flashlight to see the veins!"

"It's awesome that we got to see runner ducks probably.  We go to see the eggs inside."

"We went to go in the bathroom to candle the eggs.  We were going to candle them."

"We think our class doesn't have Pekin ducks.  But we think we have lots of runner ducks."

"The flashlight helps us see the babies inside."

"We looked inside the eggs."

"It was cool that we looked inside the eggs."

"Ducks are like Pekin and Runners.  What does it look like inside?  The veins look black."

Ever wondered how the baby ducks survive in the egg for 28 days?  Check back tomorrow as we share our findings from research!