Not uncommon, especially for the first time. After a few, the tension goes down a little.
What should I be looking for at that last candling prior to lockdown? So far what I've seen is the vascular development that starts to happen around week 1, the second week, the dark space within the egg is much bigger, movement is always fun to see, too! And by the end it just looks like a dark eggs, mostly full of chick! Am I missing something?
They're pretty filled up (dark) albeit their air cel. I'm just looking for movement, even if subtle. If I don't see movement but it looks the same as the ones that are moving around, I put an X with a pencil on that one and put it on one side of the incubator so I can keep track of it. If all the rest hatch but not that one with the X, I'll candle it again to be sure it's dead, or leave it in for another day or two.What should I be looking for at that last candling prior to lockdown? So far what I've seen is the vascular development that starts to happen around week 1, the second week, the dark space within the egg is much bigger, movement is always fun to see, too! And by the end it just looks like a dark eggs, mostly full of chick! Am I missing something?
What I've found most exciting so far was candling in that first week, because in the beginning I was setting some what were not yet fertile (I didn't want to lose any by cracking them to see) so once I started getting fertility, it's been pretty smooth sailing! I love seeing that first little giggly spider of development happening! I only had one that was weird at one week, but I had a feeling it might be since it was a little too big, the egg itself, but other than that, it's been pretty binary for me - either there is a chick growing in there, or there's not.
That is an adorable photo of your daughters watching them hatch!
