I'm been getting some detached air cells (free floating groups of small bubbles) in eggs from different pens.
Them seem to be more likely in the eggs that were recently laid on the day I'm at the farm to pick up.
(I'm only at the farm where I have my breeding stock on Sundays, other folks at the farm are collecting eggs and topping up water and food the rest of the week).
It's doesn't seem to be, for example, a lack of turning, as these seem to be the recently laid eggs I'm pulling from the nesting boxes.
Last week I let them sit upright without any turning for about 4-5 days, and they were still floating free.
I'm not sure what to make of it or how to prevent it, since it doesn't seem to be from rough handling or poor storage (or something specific to one pen - I've been getting some in 3 different pens out of 4). Any suggestions?
(I'm wondering to what extent the detached air cells people find in shipped eggs, are because people are looking for them. How often do you candle your own eggs before setting them? And of unshipped eggs, how often are the air cells loose?)
Them seem to be more likely in the eggs that were recently laid on the day I'm at the farm to pick up.
(I'm only at the farm where I have my breeding stock on Sundays, other folks at the farm are collecting eggs and topping up water and food the rest of the week).
It's doesn't seem to be, for example, a lack of turning, as these seem to be the recently laid eggs I'm pulling from the nesting boxes.
Last week I let them sit upright without any turning for about 4-5 days, and they were still floating free.
I'm not sure what to make of it or how to prevent it, since it doesn't seem to be from rough handling or poor storage (or something specific to one pen - I've been getting some in 3 different pens out of 4). Any suggestions?
(I'm wondering to what extent the detached air cells people find in shipped eggs, are because people are looking for them. How often do you candle your own eggs before setting them? And of unshipped eggs, how often are the air cells loose?)
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