Cold Incubator Eggs

[DallasChickyMomma]

I am currently on my first ever hatch. Today is day 17, my sister is over so I was showing her the babies inside. I set all of my eggs at the same time, but on inspection tonight my Ayam Cemanis and Deathlayers look perfect, but all three of the Bielefelders have huge air cells, the air cells appear to have a huge dip, and when I was moving them, it looked like there may be some type of liquid inside the cells? The air cells are cool to the touch, which I guess would be normal, but I have never read anything saying as much. Can anyone advise on what may be going on here? I didn't look for movement cause I was slightly panicked that I may have done something wrong, but the entirety of the egg was dark aside from the air cell.

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Here's a picture

 

[MysteryChicken]

Aircell looks fine to me.
What's the humidity?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

The eggs shouldn't be cool to the touch. And there shouldn't look like liquid is running in the egg

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Aircell looks fine to me.
What's the humidity?

The humidity has been running around 35-40 until today when it bumped up to the 50's due to the humidity in my house from people going in and out all day.

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

The eggs shouldn't be cool to the touch. And there shouldn't look like liquid is running in the egg

It was very weird to feel... the bottom pointy end of the egg was quite warm, but the air cell is very cool comparatively. I saw something move in the air cell portion in one when I took that picture. So, now I am worried that it may have already internally pipped. I thought I knew what I was doing, but I am learning that I don't really know anything.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The humidity has been running around 35-40 until today when it bumped up to the 50's due to the humidity in my house from people going in and out all day.

Do you use any separate calibrated thermometers, or hygrometers?

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Do you use any separate calibrated thermometers, or hygrometers?

My machine has one, but I also have a separate Thermoking that I am using inside, and I have another on the outside of the incubator to keep track of what happening in house. Aaaand I am an idiot because I just realized that they are not calibrated, even though I read that, read how to do it, and 100% had it on my list of things to do before I received my eggs.. Jeez.

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Well, I was just looking up how to calibrate my specific hygrometers, and apparently you can't. So, I will buy new ones for the next hatch, but according to what I am reading, they are pretty reliably within about 2% accuracy? So hopefully they are close enough for this hatch. The external one seems pretty dead on compared to my husbands fancy one in his office that I know is calibrated. So, we will go with that, fingers crossed. Sigh.

 

[ladybrasa]

I’ve encountered the coolness over the air cell and warm elsewhere on eggs. No idea what it means. Incubator was working fine, keeping temp. Unfortunately I didn’t document which eggs and whether they had any kind of development. Yeah, so no help to you, just I know what you are talking about!