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  1. Jrose

    Egg positioning during incubation

    Good to know, thanks! I'll check again in a day or two. I'll watch for movement too. Happily there are no clear eggs, but my understanding is that no movement = dead embryo, and that should be watched for as well.
  2. Jrose

    Egg positioning during incubation

    I've only got a silly little flashlight. I tried again and I recognize the air pocket now, it does look similar to that, but just a bit larger. When I first candled I could see the dark spot of the developing chick plus veins in all the eggs. Now the cloudiness seems impenetrably dark. Maybe...
  3. Jrose

    Egg positioning during incubation

    I've put them in the cartons regardless. I don't like rolling them around on that silly grate. This way I'll have to handle them less. I'll look again tonight and study them well. Maybe get a photo if I can. I probably just don't know what I'm looking at :P
  4. Jrose

    Egg positioning during incubation

    They're not shipped, they're from my own hens. I appreciate the info. Maybe I just don't know what I'm seeing... There's a dark cloudy mass, with a darker spot in the middle, and a decent portion of the egg (maybe 1/3) is clear looking. I took this clear area to be the air pocket. The dark...
  5. Jrose

    Egg positioning during incubation

    I'm on day 7. This is my first incubation. I candled and all have a clear air pocket, a cloudy dark area, and a dark spot. These look just like the Learning Center candling pics. However, I'm using an LG still air incubator and the eggs are just on the wire grate, so the air sacks are...
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