Lockdown: Eggs are moving but they're not full.

[Madi131]

Okay. This is my first time hatching eggs. These are either a golden 300 crossed with a khaki Campbell drake or pure Khaki. I have a feeling it's the cross. Last time both eggs had died before hatch. This time I have 2 good eggs, the only 2 I put in, alive and well. Tomorrow is lock down. However, they're not taking the whole space in the egg. I was wondering if since it was fertilized by a smaller breed of drake it might not take up the whole egg? I can see flippers and movement very well. Should I still put it on lock down? Both eggs look the exact same. I thought I had messed up my dates and missed a week or something but I did not. I had set them on 4/25. The pictures are of the egg candled on the top and bottom. I know some of my bigger quail eggs aren't completely full before hatch but my chicken eggs are always full.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Knighstar679]

My advice would be to lay them on their sides separate from a turner and wait a day recandle.

you may have had a temperature dip which can slow down the eggs a few days. I usually wait until I see an external pip to take my humidity into the 60% range. But I have had one duck egg hatch that didn’t seem like it filled the egg, it had been due to a large air cell size.