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I know what you mean, I have to sit on my hands in order to avoid over-candling my quail's eggs! Nothing is more exciting to me than hatching eggs. I would do it for a living if I could!

In the photo you showed that's not a bullseye! Just a nucleus called a blastodisc. The bullseye, called a blastoderm, looks similar to that but is much more than a little white spot! It will be twice that size and look like a white ring AROUND a spot, and usually with some beginnings of veins...

Sometimes if your candling light is too bright, it will shine right through very fine veins or a tiny embryo! It can also be hard to see through spotted, thick shelled, or dark coloured eggs.

Oh no... Accidents happen! Don't be hard on yourself. It happens to all of us sooner or later!

Well, after 5 days there won't be much change, but from the picture you've posted that ''bullseye'' spot is just the hen's contribution toward making a chick called the nucleus; seeing that doesn't necessarily mean it's fertile. What you want to be looking for after about a week is a spiderlike...