Need suggestions on hatching position for shipped egg with abnormal air cell shape

Can anyone give me suggestions on this egg position for hatching. I am planning on leaving it in the carton to hatch, however I am unsure if I need to slightly lean it either way to increase its chances of pipping correctly.
I am on day 17 today, and I have been unsuccessful with trying to get the aircell corrected after the postal system played drop kick with the package.
I started out with 18, however the 2 in the pic are the only ones that made it this far. The others had too much aircell damage, and I was not able to get those going. (The ones in background I put in a few days ago from a local source. I will be moving the background eggs to another incubator once I lockdown.
I am able to candle them without opening the incubator, so I at least have that to my advantage.
Any sugesstions would be appreciated.
Thanks

Nksg75 said:

Can anyone give me suggestions on this egg position for hatching. I am planning on leaving it in the carton to hatch, however I am unsure if I need to slightly lean it either way to increase its chances of pipping correctly.
I am on day 17 today, and I have been unsuccessful with trying to get the aircell corrected after the postal system played drop kick with the package.
I started out with 18, however the 2 in the pic are the only ones that made it this far. The others had too much aircell damage, and I was not able to get those going. (The ones in background I put in a few days ago from a local source. I will be moving the background eggs to another incubator once I lockdown.
I am able to candle them without opening the incubator, so I at least have that to my advantage.
Any sugesstions would be appreciated.
Thanks

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I had to go through my photo album back a few years to find this and yes these are eggs that went the Mail route and as you can see some of these eggs have a off center or ideal air cell position but believe it or not this was a great hatch as only 2 eggs were a no-go so just let mother nature take her course and my incubator is nothing special and it is still working even after close to 20 years of work .......



Wish you luck in your hatch





These are a couple of Molted Houdan chicks that decided to come out today and look at the world




















gander007

I hatched mine upright but on a very slight angle so the biggest part of the air cell was facing slightly upwards for the same reason. You have much better looking air cells than me though, mine were badly saddle shaped.


Not sure if you can tell from the photo but they were in cut off paper towel roll centre.


Stop turning them now, I read stop at day 16 rather than stopping at lockdown but also didn't read it till day 17.


They both hatched fine.

I'd like to know, too. I have some in the incubator with the auto turner,- same issue. First time using an incubator, wish I would have waited 24-48 hours to let them settle more before putting them in. I put them in lock down horizontal. Had to assist 2 out of 4 so far.

Thank you all for the help. Yes, I also read that same article, however when I needed to find it and refresh my memory, I of course could not find it. I actually am not supposed to put them in lockdown until tonight, so I am taking that advice and stopped rotating them. I will tilt them slightly like you suggested, and let nature take its course.
Do you remember if the article suggested raising the humidity early as well, or just to stop rotating them early and follow the normal lockdown on day 18?
Thank you both.

Congrats on your hatch gander007, looks like they arrived earlier than expected since they were still in the turner!

Nksg75 said:

Thank you all for the help. Yes, I also read that same article, however when I needed to find it and refresh my memory, I of course could not find it. I actually am not supposed to put them in lockdown until tonight, so I am taking that advice and stopped rotating them. I will tilt them slightly like you suggested, and let nature take its course.
Do you remember if the article suggested raising the humidity early as well, or just to stop rotating them early and follow the normal lockdown on day 18?
Thank you both.

Congrats on your hatch gander007, looks like they arrived earlier than expected since they were still in the turner!

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Yes they hatched on day 19 but yes I took the photo just before taking them out of the incubator but I do like to leave them in the incubator for several hours after hatching just to observe the new chicks before putting them in the brooder with the chicks that range up to four weeks of age ............

Nksg75 said:

Thank you all for the help. Yes, I also read that same article, however when I needed to find it and refresh my memory, I of course could not find it. I actually am not supposed to put them in lockdown until tonight, so I am taking that advice and stopped rotating them. I will tilt them slightly like you suggested, and let nature take its course.
Do you remember if the article suggested raising the humidity early as well, or just to stop rotating them early and follow the normal lockdown on day 18?
Thank you both.

Congrats on your hatch gander007, looks like they arrived earlier than expected since they were still in the turner!

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Just checked my diary and it was 65 % at lockdown, I think from memory it was lower than the 70-75% they normally suggest because you want a larger air pocket for them to pip easier but that may have only been for the saddle shaped air cells as they could sit higher in the shell because of their shape causing the chicks problems when they try to internal pip.

I was wondering if you could leave eggs in the turning tray for hatching at lockdown, just not being turned? I know most people leave eggs laying horizontal for hatching, which I haven't done so far. Could this be a problem? The worst case scenario is me having to quickly move just hatched chicks to my other incubator, which I know could be detrimental to unhatched eggs.

I was wondering if you could leave eggs in the turning tray for hatching at lockdown, just not being turned? I know most people leave eggs laying horizontal for hatching, which I haven't done so far. Could this be a problem? The worst case scenario is me having to quickly move just hatched chicks to my other incubator, which I know could be detrimental to unhatched eggs.

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I would think that that would work. I have some eggs in the incubator that were shipped right now and some have very questionable air cells. I've got them in the egg turner currently and after reading some of this may do the stop turn sooner than originally planned. I did a quick candle yesterday to just check a few eggs and I thought 2 looked like they 'might' have embryos starting to develop and the 3rd definitely did. So I was shocked. I didn't expect any to even develop.

eking121121 said:

I was wondering if you could leave eggs in the turning tray for hatching at lockdown, just not being turned? I know most people leave eggs laying horizontal for hatching, which I haven't done so far. Could this be a problem? The worst case scenario is me having to quickly move just hatched chicks to my other incubator, which I know could be detrimental to unhatched eggs.

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You are on a really old thread here so you might want to start a new one, but my advice here is to take your eggs out of the turner and put them into a cardboard carton that has had its edges trimmed down so the cups are not so deep on the outside. I just finished a hatch like this and had a good result. The trouble with leaving them in the turner is that they have nowhere to go once they hatch and you dont want to be opening the bator at that point.