I'm probably crazy but I'm going to try hatching a egg with my body heat. Hatch-Along

[LavenderDaFlerf]

What I have found, is that when the yolk moves around, the embryo died. I'm not sure what it is in your situation though. Maybe @U_Stormcrow can help.

The yolk only moved around the first 4 days and I could see the heart beating on the fourth.

 

[All4Eggz]

The yolk only moved around the first 4 days and I could see the heart beating on the fourth.

Does the embryo look alive right now? Is there movement, when you place the egg down?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I don't candle NEARLY as frequently as I should - can't help. My impression is that, apart from head/beak movement, there really shouldn't be any 2+ weeks into incubation. But I could be ENTIRELY wrong.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Does the embryo look alive right now? Is there movement, when you place the egg down?

When I set the egg on my light I could see the embryo moving back and forth.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

It's only on day six.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Okay, it sounds like the egg is fine.

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Candling day 7, for some reason there's not air cell, this is the big end.

 

[Lovely Lettie]

Is this egg dead?????

 

[NatJ]

Candling day 7, for some reason there's not air cell, this is the big end.

I don't know why it is that way, but as long as the embryo seems to be doing well, I would continue with that egg.

I've seen a few eggs that seemed to have no air cell, and later the air cell was there and the right size, so with my eggs it might have just been something about the shell or the angle I was looking at. (I decided my air cells must have been their all along, but I sometimes failed to see them.)

If the air cell really is too small (or absent), lower humidity might help. The usual way to lower humidity is to quit adding water to the incubator, and maybe increase ventilation to the incubator-- but considering the way you are incubating this egg, I'm not sure what to suggest!

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Is this egg dead?????

No, the embryo is still moving.