Magicfly LED Egg Candler – Item of the Day
Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Magicfly LED Egg Candler. According to my order history in Amazon we bought this just about a year ago in August of 2015. Talk about an item we use daily, 5-8 dozen duck eggs a day, every day.
If you are just producing eggs for home, getting a bad one, once in a while, is not a problem. For us though, a bad egg to a customer is just not something we can afford. We tried others, in spite of great reviews, we held back on this one. Why? It plugs in vs. using a battery.
So for two years I used three different battery models, none were really super bright and all failed in time. The brightest battery one we found was this one by Brinsea, problem, it actually physically fell apart. Like in the paraphrased words of Ron White, “Fell the F apart”. In two pieces and would not stay together after that.
Then I thought about it, where do we wash and package our eggs, well in our kitchen of course. And there are two quad box outlets right there, so what if it plugs in, that just means no battery to wear out! We we ordered the Magicfly LED Egg Candler and never looked back. Doing the math we have candled 18,000 plus eggs with it and it works as good as the day we bought it.
Nothing else, not even an expensive tactical flashlight lights up an egg like this. Again if you just keep a half dozen birds for home use, likely you don’t need it, but it is still the best value in a candler I have found. The Brinsea that fell apart was twice the money!
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Okay, I must be confused, what *exactly* do YOU use a candler for? I’ve only heard of it in conjunction with hatching poultry to make sure the chicks are developing (which also was all I came up with on Google), so I didn’t even think it useful. If it’s covered in an article or podcast, a link would be wonderful.
Some times you get bad eggs.
Sometimes you get a blood spot in a yolk, again if you are doing it for home use and they are a big one, no big the dog gets an egg. If they are small big deal cook the egg. Customers do not feel this way though.
Also there are “Easter eggs” eggs the birds lay while out and about, is that egg from today, or last week, if it has started to go bad you will see it.
And some eggs just are not “right” the can be cloudy, or have weird things going on. Not really common but when you are selling eggs to 5 star restaurants one or two popping up can cost you an entire account.
Cool, I had no idea that you could see so much more than just “embryo/no embryo”… at the price of free-range eggs, even for my backyard flock might be nice just to decide which eggs need to be used up first.