Can I still incubate these egg?

[Seth_12]

So I got 14 ameraucana hatching eggs and I read online about detach air sacs and that you can't incubate these and most of eggs are like this. Can I still incubate them? I plan on using my broody hen to hatch these.

 

[Nor-Cal Chickens]

Wish I could help, still learning about this topic myself.

 

[oregonkat]

Ideally you would candle the egg with the fat end up so you can really tell where the air sac edges are. The photo looks like you might have a 'saddle' air sac but its hard to tell. Try your broody hen and candle some of the eggs in a week or so.

 

[Seth_12]

Ideally you would candle the egg with the fat end up so you can really tell where the air sac edges are. The photo looks like you might have a 'saddle' air sac but its hard to tell. Try your broody hen and candle some of the eggs in a week or so.

Thank you. When I candle them am I looking for anything particular or just to see if they are developing?

 

[City farm]

Ideally you would candle the egg with the fat end up so you can really tell where the air sac edges are. The photo looks like you might have a 'saddle' air sac but its hard to tell. Try your broody hen and candle some of the eggs in a week or so.

Yes agree, keep us posted.

 

[oregonkat]

If you've got the eggs under a broody, the humidity and temp are not an issue, mother nature is wonderfully capable of taking care of all of that. If the air sacs are detached or saddled, which means that the edges will appear uneven and like the sides of a saddle instead of straight around, there really isnt anything to be done except to wait and see who, if anyone, pops out. If you decide to put the eggs into an incubator then the conversation changes a little as the humidity issue becomes more complicated with detached or saddled air sacs.

 

[Knighstar679]

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So I got 14 ameraucana hatching eggs and I read online about detach air sacs and that you can't incubate these and most of eggs are like this. Can I still incubate them? I plan on using my broody hen to hatch these.

If that was a real detached air cell that bubble would likely gone up to the pointed end of the egg with how your candling. But a saddle cell will look like that very often. I have hatched several like that in an incubators and have heard broodies do a better job.

 

[slordaz]

did you let the eggs sit for 24 hours after you got them?

To me looks like the air cell just is off center but then again coffee ran out a bit ago lol. if it's saddle they can still hatch haven't had any luck getting a live chick out of a truely detached air cell.

in a week you will see a couple of things, if the egg is fertile and how the chick is progressing

 

[Seth_12]

Thank you everyone for your knowledge. I did let them sit for 24 hrs and now it day 2 since I put them with my broody hen. Here's a picture of her

 

[Cryss]

Thank you everyone for your knowledge. I did let them sit for 24 hrs and now it day 2 since I put them with my broody hen. Here's a picture of her
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Oh so pretty! What breed is she?