Depending on what day your candling do you ALways see movement?

[Mama2B&D&...Chickens]

Further along...AH! I don't know the EXACT day my broody BO started sitting on them but close...around the 8th...I candled 2 today and saw veins and what looked like a air cell on one end and chick blob on the other? IDK ((FIRST TIMER ALERT

)) But, no movement?

Are those hopeless or maybe just a few more days behind what i thought they were?

Thanks any advice, opinions would be helpful!

 

[debilorrah]

I have NEVER seen movement. Do not be discouraged by not seeing movement.

 

[Mama2B&D&...Chickens]

OH this makes me feel so much better! I was really loosing hope! Thanks so much for posting this!

 

[dsqard]

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X2 Just did my first hatch this month and got six chicks out of eggs that I never saw movement in.

 

[buzymom13]

First GOOD LUCK! I'm on day 11 and candled and saw lots of movement in 1 egg out of 6. We've already gotten rid of one that was a definite clear nothing going on... but we did get to see movement in that one egg and it was exciting. A couple of mine are really dark shells and I can only see some faint veining and that's about it. So, we're hopeful that there is more going on in there!

Hope you have a great hatching!!!

 

[vebyrd36]

Every now and then I'll see a heartbeat. Mine were still today when I put them in lockdown.

 

[bantyhen'sfriend]

Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't. The embryos rest, just like human babies. Sometimes they just bounce around, sometimes they take a nap.

 

[chknmomma]

I WISH I had seen this post BEFORE I just cracked open an egg that I hadn't seen movement in. I've been suspicious of the development in 2 of my 3 BLRW eggs. But what the hell do I know, I'm a first timer.

Well, I just killed a day 12 embryo.

I could have gone without ever seeing that. I feel terrible now.

So I guess you really might not see movement in there.

 

[minihorse927]

Very rarely do I ever see movement in any of mine once they get past the little embryo blob stage. Once they get past day 7 or 8 I never see them move. That is why I learned to wait till day 10-12 to candle anymore. As long as the egg is partly black I leave it alone.

 

[dianneS]

I don't ever see much movement. Sometimes at the very end if I can see a foot near the air cell I might see movement, but most of the time, no.