Day 16 - Is this dot concerning?

[SoggyForks]

I candle the eggs on the daily and just noticed this little funny looking shape in one of my more developed eggs. (It's the little liver-shaped thingy between the dark sides) Is this bad? I'm kinda new to incubating by myself

 

[nuthatched]

Is the dark part your hand?

 

[SoggyForks]

Is the dark part your hand?

No, that's just the dark sides where the baby peeks around. It's a pretty oblong egg and there's not much middle space.

 

[nuthatched]

No, that's just the dark sides where the baby peeks around. It's a pretty oblong egg and there's not much middle space.

I'm not seeing the fit your referring to, have these eggs been turned regularly?

 

[SoggyForks]

I'm not seeing the fit your referring to, have these eggs been turned regularly?

I've been turning them 6 times a day. But I guess there's a pretty big 8 hour gap while I'm at school. But I check and turn them hourly on weekends. Some of them are all lop-sided like this one, but most of the others are all dark (minus the air sac)

 

[nuthatched]

I've been turning them 6 times a day. But I guess there's a pretty big 8 hour gap while I'm at school. But I check and turn them hourly on weekends. Some of them are all lop-sided like this one, but most of the others are all dark (minus the air sac)

A bit excessive but it won't hurt it.
I'd just watch it for now, nothing looks too concerning.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I've been turning them 6 times a day.

An odd # of times per day is generally recommended to combat the 8 hour lapse you mention.. since they develop at the top of the egg.. and if it's 6 times every day except weekends then it's spending most of it's time on that one same side.

Some of them are all lop-sided like this one, but most of the others are all dark (minus the air sac)

The all dark ones sound more correct.. These like this one, might be quitters. I'll admit candling is not my area of expertise.. but I expect to see blood vessels and more development.

Image from google for reference..

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

Yeah, the egg pictured looks to be a quitter. I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure.

 

[Susan Skylark]

A late embryonic death (after a couple days) should develop a dark clumpy area and a lighter liquidy area and be sort of sloshy inside, the shadow should grow daily on a healthy egg, regression is a bad sign. If it isn’t stinky you can leave it in a few days just in case.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

The easiest way to check is looking for blood vessels. Regardless of size or age. If the embryo has blood vessels it is, at least for now, alive.