air cell development

So my eggs are about 11 days old I think. This is my first time, and I'm afraid am doing it wrong. It come to my attention from a Facebook group that I should be concerned about the air pocket in these eggs. I'm supposed to have a pointy side down. So I took what I have and put them back into...

Ok, so I am hatching shipped eggs. On day 7 air cells were on the side and now at 14 I have 12/12 saddle shaped air cells. I am using an auto egg turner. Does anyone have tips for a successful hatch at this point? All eggs have darkness , blood vessels and movement .

Hi everyone, This is my first time incubating eggs, and sadly out of the 12, only 1 was fertilized and made it this far. We are on day 19, but the photo shows the air cell markings from day 18, just before I took the turner out of the incubator. I ran the incubator with much too high of humidity...

Hello, it's my first time hatching duck eggs. I got them shipped from ebay and I've been monitoring their growth. I check for movement and they seem to be doing good. My concern is the air sacs seem to be a weird shape. Also I have no idea if they are too big or too small. I didn't pencil the...

My goose egg is on day 29 and I believe it has internally pipped but the air cell is massive! Is this normal? temps at 99.5 and humidity at 70% for the last few days, the egg has been like this for 2 days chick is still moving inside

Hi, I’m incubating eggs in an incubator for the first time. The temperature has been consistent but the humidity has been from 30-70% in the last 2 days despite me trying to regulate it to between 45-55%. It’s day 13 and I’ve taken a picture of a couple of my eggs and I was just wondering if...

Hello! I am hatching snowflake bobwhite quail eggs that were shipped to me from a nearby breeder (about 30 miles away). As recommended by the seller, I did not turn eggs for the first 6 days of incubation and situated them with the pointy end facing down. I am now turning them with a roller...

Our eggs were initially at 50-55% RH for first 6-7 days. After candling and realizing there is almost no air cell growth, I decreased RH to 40% and it did not help much, then to 26% (with no water at the bottom of incubator at all). It is day 18 now and air cells is still not where they suppose...

Ok guys... it’s been years since I incubated eggs last, and my new incubator says one humidity on its digital read out and my two different hygrometer/ thermometers in it say two different readings. Incubator will say 64 and the two inside at egg level say 51 and 55. Please take a look at these...

Ok guys... it’s been years since I incubated eggs last, and my new incubator says one humidity on its digital read out and my two different hygrometer/ thermometers in it say two different readings. Incubator will say 64 and the two inside at egg level say 51 and 55. Please take a look at these...

I am incubating my first batch using a forced air vertical orientation incubator. I have been using broody hens but have switched to get a consistent schedule instead of hen time. I played with the incubator for a few weeks and discarded the provided control feedback display as it is completely...

Hi everyone! I'm extremely worried about my eggs, they're all from my 6 month old Cochin Bantam, as soon as she layed I put the eggs in the incubator, it's day 7 for egg 1 and it's developing well, can see some movement too but their cell is on the pointed end. I Candled the rest too and my...

Hello, I am incubating 7 silkie eggs from my own flock. Today was day eight of incubation. I candle them and didn't see any veins but the yolk looked dark. The air cell was the correct size for day eight and has grown considerably since I first put them in. Does this mean that an embryo is...

So I use a dry method in my incubator for the first 18 days and did that as usual. This time I have different breeds with some large eggs like EE's and Austrolorps and small eggs like Ayam Cemani. All the big eggs have nice big air cells but the small eggs seem to have REALLY small air cells...

I’m not sure how this happened, but ive been aiming for 70-80% humidity in my incubator. The lowest it has gone is 66%. We are at Day 14, and air sacs are pitifully small. Is there any way to fix this? Take humidity WAAAAY down for a while? I’m desperately trying to preserve the genetics of a...

Ok... 23 shipped eggs...I let them rest upright for 48 hours before setting. They are in an upright tilting turner. I candled them today, day 7, 6 of the eggs had no development and every solitary one of the others has a detached air cell:thI am so disappointed I am almost sick. This is my first...

The egg is about 20 days old now, I know muscovy eggs take longer to hatch, but the air cell still looks like a day1 air cell. I left the humidity on 23% for the night, and I checked back this morning, it's still the same size, what do i do?

Hi! My 11-year-old daughter and I are new and posting together here as we try for the first time to hatch Rouen ducklings! We are using a Genesis Hova-Bator styrofoam incubator with a fan. We have spent hours over the past weeks reading in the learning center, printing articles, reading forums...

These are silkie eggs and were shipped, but only from within the country... Any ideas why the air cells are like this? Will they survive? The chicks inside are growing well otherwise.

This is my first time trying to hatch anything seriously and with an incubator. All the other times were when I was a child with a light in my bedroom side table drawer like in this movie I saw about a girl finding, hatching, and raising geese. I've researched hatching eggs but there's a lot of...