Day 17 does this egg look alive?

[Lammy2011]

This is day 17 I’ve not seen any movement in the egg I’m worried the chick is dead or does this look normal? Thank you

 

[mcdze]

a well defined air pocket with the rest dark is usually good .. but not on the side.. cant tell what im looking at from the pics, but a good rule of thumb is give the eggs to day 23 and leave them alone, i would guess playing around with eggs right at hatch time has caused many more problems than its ever helped .. then after the times up and most have hatched and you got one that looks iffy like that you might want to ding a hole in the air pocket and physically look for movement .. if nothing its done ..

 

[Hatch in chicks]

I would give it 25 days. it looks alive, they don't always move. your good, but what's the temp and humidity?

 

[Lammy2011]

a well defined air pocket with the rest dark is usually good .. but not on the side.. cant tell what im looking at from the pics, but a good rule of thumb is give the eggs to day 23 and leave them alone, i would guess playing around with eggs right at hatch time has caused many more problems than its ever helped .. then after the times up and most have hatched and you got one that looks iffy like that you might want to ding a hole in the air pocket and physically look for movement .. if nothing its done ..

Thanks for your reply I’ll just have to be patient it’s my first time letting one of my hens hatch some eggs just hoping it all goes well as last week it got to -7 when we had a random cold spell and was worried it would of affected them

 

[Hatch in chicks]

I would give it 25 days. it looks alive, they don't always move. your good, but what's the temp and humidity?

 

[Lammy2011]

I would give it 25 days. it looks alive, they don't always move. your good, but what's the temp and humidity?

I’ve got a silkie sitting on 3 eggs this one is a Rhode Island Red and the other two are cream leg bars but the eggs are blue and can’t see into it at all