I began hatching shipped eggs this year and quickly learned about shipped eggs and air cell damage. Here is an egg with cell damage in my incubator right now. The air cell space moves around like a water bubble and has extensive "pulled away" places down the sides of the egg. This one has just this one place going down the side but other eggs have had two sides like this. Anyway, I often have these babies go full term only to die at the end, I guess from not being able to hatch. This egg is 8 days from hatching. These are some Breda fowl eggs that I had shipped and just a few are possible to hatch with most looking like this. I fear most will not make it out of the shell, leaving me with little or nothing from this batch of eggs. I did let these eggs, like always, "rest" for 24 hrs before placing in incubator and didn't turn them for couple of days. They are incubating in an auto turner so they are not on their sides. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting more eggs like this to actually hatch? I have also tried some eggs like this in egg cartons for hatching. I wasn't really happy about the luck I had with this when one chick pipped the wrong end, the small end down in the carton and died because it was trapped. Thanks for any ideas!
