Dandichook
Songster
I have a batch of coturnix quail eggs in the incubator. Today is day 9, and as I was candling the other day I realized one of the eggs has the air cell on the side of the egg, not the round end.
That egg clearly had a live chick in it as of that candling. I didn't have a flashlight strong enough to candle the eggs when we first set them, so it has been in our roller style turner the entire incubation, otherwise I would have incubated pointy side up...i figure now there's no point since it seems to be developing okay. The air cell is secure, not floating.
How likely is the chick to make it to hatch? Will we need to do anything special for it to pip?
Edit: clicked send too early!!
That egg clearly had a live chick in it as of that candling. I didn't have a flashlight strong enough to candle the eggs when we first set them, so it has been in our roller style turner the entire incubation, otherwise I would have incubated pointy side up...i figure now there's no point since it seems to be developing okay. The air cell is secure, not floating.
How likely is the chick to make it to hatch? Will we need to do anything special for it to pip?
Edit: clicked send too early!!