What day should the embryo start moving?

[peebee]

I'm orphaning a duck egg and I've had it for about three days. Yesterday I was positive based on a chart it was 9 days old but today I candles it longer and the the black dot inside is moving around ALOT. that means it's alive which it great but i think it means I'm a few days off. So what day does the black dot start moving?

 

[lazy gardener]

I've seen movement in chicken eggs before day 7. Pretty awesome, isn't it? I love candling day 7 - 10 because that seems to be when you see the most action.

 

[peebee]

I've seen movement in chicken eggs before day 7.  Pretty awesome, isn't it?  I love candling day 7 - 10 because that seems to be when you see the most action.

Yeah it spooked me a bit looking at it. It's crazy thinking that I'm holding a living thing. Yeah, pretty awesome