Detached air cells in NON-Shipped eggs - thoughts?

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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?)
 
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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?)
if am egg has a completely detached air cell (where the air cell goes from one end of the egg to the other when turning the egg end to end.

You can normally see very well the eggs that have been shipped throughout incubation. The air cells behave almost completely differently.
 

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