Early Candling Question

[AlpineSpringsRanch]

I was lookimg at this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/candling-pics-progression-through-incubation-of-chicken-eggs

For the day 1 - 4, if you rotate the egg should the embryo stay put or is it ok for it to move?

I've got 6 eggs, my first time trying to incubate. A couple of them I can't see anything inside, a couple have dark masses that rotate with the egg...I can only assume this is the yolk?

When / if I see the development on day 3 or 4 should it be stationary?

 

[mnferalkitty]

it will not be stationary it will move the first thing you will see is blood vessels and maybe a tiny spot(embryo) if you look real hard be careful this is when they are they most fragile. I do not candle my eggs until day 10 then I know for sure which are developing

 

[nurse_turtle]

It won't be stationary. The embryo moves throughout its incubation cycle. It's okay to candle everyday if you want to. It's quite educational. The dark orb inside is the yolk. On day 5-6 if you look very carefully in a very dark room, you can see the tiniest heartbeat ever. It looks like a tiny dim red light blinking.

 

[AlpineSpringsRanch]

Thanks that information was definately helpful . All the pictures LOOK like the embryo / vessels are attached to the egg wall so I wasn't sure! Most videos show the egg stationary so i was a little worried

 

[Apriljc]

My eggs are 6 days into incubation. I have at least 11 embryos.

I have 6 that are light colored and six brown.

Here is what I have noticed so far: On day one, the yolk was a dark central mass. On day 2, the yolks seemed to float pretty easily. On day 3, the yolks seemed to flatten and spread out a bit--as far as the shadow was concerned. On day four, I began seeing small amounts of veining with a central red spot. Day 5, the eye vacate visible in a few, greater veining, and some movement. The darker ones show much less detail. Day 6, I can see movement in 11 eggs; veining is visible in the light shelled eggs; barely noticeable in my dark eggs. The jury is still out on the 12th brown egg.

 

[AlpineSpringsRanch]

Update - thanks so much for the feedback. I set the eggs friday afternoon and today I could see the little dark dot in three of them. The other three are darker brown and I can still only see a shadow of a yolk but i want to get a darker lamp / better look and wait a few more days before I make a mistake and prematurely rule one out. SUPER exciting though!!