Damaged Air Sack?

[Laci7210]

My chick eggs are on Day 12 and I candled them. One of the eggs air sack was visible at the top, but part of it looked busted and like it floated around the egg.. I candled before and this just happened. Will this effect the growth or hatch? The outside of the egg is not broke.

 

[Alaskan]

Hummmm

Impossible to know until after it is all done.


Unless it is clearly rotten, I would leave it in and see what happens.

 

[thehackleguy]

Broken aircells do affect hatchability (not in a good way), it usually happens from shock damage in shipping but can be caused by shaking or dropping eggs also. Some chicks will hatch but it is a crap shoot, I just had eggs shipped that almost all of the aircells were displaced, out of 24 eggs I hatched 7 healthy chicks and one died right after hatching. Most of them developed but failed to hatch. You can search "tremulous aircell" and get some good information on the subject.

 

[Laci7210]

Thanks for the help! I left it in the incubator another day and when I opened the incubator the next day, it was obviously rotten. I took it out. Atleast I still have 4 chicks and 8 turkeys that are hatching Monday and Tuesday!!

 

[Alaskan]

Hope you have a good hatch!

 

[Laci7210]

Me too! Nobody is peeping yet but they might be a little bit late because my incubator was unplugged one night in incubation. Hoping for everybody to hatch!!