Is it alive?

[clifford258]

Hey folks I am on my first set of chicken eggs Today makes the 7th day they have been incubating. They are brown eggs so hard to see a lot inside but I do see a air bubble, and the opposite side there is a really dark area. However if I have the pointed end down on the candler the dark are moves to the fat side, and when I put the fat end down on the candler the dark area moves to the pointed side?????????? Is this normal?? Also if these eggs aren't alive wouldn't they be smelling by now???
Thank you Folks
Clifford

 

[linuxman]

It's not good that you have moved them around so much. They are probably dead now. They won't always smell, as a batch of mine were dead for about 2 weeks, and had no smell.

 

[tec27]

Hey folks I am on my first set of chicken eggs Today makes the 7th day they have been incubating. They are brown eggs so hard to see a lot inside but I do see a air bubble, and the opposite side there is a really dark area. However if I have the pointed end down on the candler the dark are moves to the fat side, and when I put the fat end down on the candler the dark area moves to the pointed side?????????? Is this normal?? Also if these eggs aren't alive wouldn't they be smelling by now???
Thank you Folks
Clifford

I thinking you're thinking about this too much. It sounds fine. Just let them go and stop candling. And no they probably aren't dead now. Unless your constantly candling and shaking them. And no eggs can go awhile without smelling. Eggs that start smelling are usually the embryos that have developed a lot. They smell because they are decomposing. At day 7 there still isnt a lot of embryo to decompose so smelling would occur slower.