Bubbly eggs ?

[Hazel feather]

Hi all ,
My leghorn eggs arrived today , three days in postage and no breakages ! The only problem is some air cells are wobbly, but I noticed “bubbles” in all the exchequer leghorns and no bubbles in the lavenders ? It doesn’t look like part of the air cell .
Will this kill the chicks ? Is there anything I can do ?
Thanks in advance .

 

[FunClucks]

If you plan to rest them, pointy side, down, do that, then incubate. Some folks rest them for 24 hrs, then incubate.

Either way, nothing you can do really. Good luck!

 

[FunClucks]

Now, if you're talking about the speckled appearance of the shell (light speckles) - that's due to differing permeability of the shell in those areas. Sometimes you see this in older eggs, or when hens are older. It is what it is at this point, I'd just rest them and incubate.

 

[Hazel feather]

Now, if you're talking about the speckled appearance of the shell (light speckles) - that's due to differing permeability of the shell in those areas. Sometimes you see this in older eggs, or when hens are older. It is what it is at this point, I'd just rest them and incubate.

If you plan to rest them, pointy side, down, do that, then incubate. Some folks rest them for 24 hrs, then incubate.

Either way, nothing you can do really. Good luck!

okay thanks! I’ve never had bubbles in hatching eggs before but I’m excited to see how many hatch !
The bubbles move in little groups when I turn the egg .

 

[nuthatched]

That's the air cell, all eggs have one.
They may have had rough handling that dislodged it from the end. Rest your egg fat end up at room temperature for 24 hours, then incubate, if possible, fat end up for the first week.

 

[FunClucks]

If you incubator has them lying on their sides, you can use solo (plastic) cups, and stick the eggs in those, and put those in the incubator to keep them fat end (air cell end) up for at least the first week. You can rotate them around their vertical axis if rotation is desired. After that, enough of the membrane should be attached to the walls/blastoid will have grown enough to secure the wet mass of the egg to the shell wall, which will stabilize the air cell area, and help prevent liquid from going up there. Some incubators keep the egg basically vertical, and rotate the fat end about 35-45 degrees from side to side, with the pointy end staying pointed down. You can do this in a cut off plastic cup inside your incubator manually and odd number of times a day - 3 is often sufficient. You don't have to roll them on their sides to rotate as some incubators do.

Good luck!