Without trying to beat a dead horse.
turn your eggs
If you choose not to follow the advice then that's ok. Just log how with the crappy air cells hatch. It won't be many. Then subtract the chicks that don't make it because they are stuck to the side of the shell. The benefit gained from trying to repair sure cells will bee lost in dead-in-shell chicks or those you will desperately try and save through assisting.
I may sound c old but I am really not. Of you read through the two years of this thread you will see an evolution of thoughts and practices.
I am not the perfect Hatcher by any means. I have however set over one thousand shipped chicken eggs, a thousand quail, a hundred guinea, and scores of Turkey and Chukar.
Every hatch has thorough records in an access data base. I can run statistics on humidity, turning and packaging material with p values that are statistically significant.
Every egg is precious to me. A batch that fails can mean a delay of a year in developing the breed. I abhor detached air cells and like everyone else I set them. Out of eighty three eggs with air cells that roll from one end to the other I have had zero hatch.
A saddled air cell decreases my hatch rate by twenty seven percent.
No turning for 12 hours does not effect my hatch rate. I get an increase of dead in shell chicks of twenty percent by not turning for two days
I hope this makes sense.
Makes perfect sense and I appreciate your time and willingness to help others and share your experience! For someone like me who has never incubated it is a daunting thing and I know everyone has to start somewhere.
In your experience do incubators with egg turners in the upright position have better success with bad air cells versus incubators that lay eggs and roll them to turn?
I am probably going to save myself some bator space and discard my rolling air cells. I will double check them before I set just in case but after hearing your and Sally's experience with them I really see no point in trying to incubate them. Thankfully there aren't too many.