I don't have much experience with it but I don't think there was movement. The eggs having been under her right up until yesterday when she seemed to be off and on them and then started laying in one at a time. I know some eggs were at least a few days later than the first few she started laying on. I never got a good timeline because she's quite protective and I could only check the nest if I caught her off of it.
Like another member mentioned, I guess it's best not to take a gamble of them being bad eggs and exploding.
I think that's what I'll do on the weekend. My curiosity will drive me crazy if I don't, I'd like to have a better idea of what happened.
Have you gotten around to checking the eggs?
Luckily I didn't because Saturday morning one of the eggs started to hatch and I was able to watch it hatch throughout the day and we got chick #5!! It was the larger of the two and i was really surprise when i saw the cracks since she had been off and on it. I was so impatient all day waiting and so thankful when it was safely out and all of them are doing great! The 6th egg is still intact so I'm going to check it today since Mama has left it alone.
I just opened the last egg that didn't hatch and unfortunately there was a chick in there. I'm guessing it died in the shell for whatever reason. It was a small egg so I'm not sure what happened. The membrane was quite thick on this one and stuck to the chick. The last egg that hatched the shell cracked off but the chick was trying to get through the membrane and the shell from the first 4 chicks to hatch just seemed like they broke in half shell and membrane.
Aww. So it wasn't breathing when you opened it?
No it was gone, the eyes still looked like they were sealed shut but I'm not sure how that works wth chicks. She had been off the egg for quite a few days so I have I feeling it may have been gone for a while.
