Extremely sadded eggs! Any tips?!

[Doobly]

Very saddled shipped muscovy eggs; we are talking ones that arrived with the air cells right down to the middle on some. Day 9 and we have 5/6 developing. All the embryos are just under the air cell so the veins are poking out. Any tips? Air sacs aren't detached but the air was moving a lot when initially marking the cells before setting. Any tips? I've heard a few people keep them upright all incubation and they keep the humidity high to prevent the egg losing too much moisture?

We've just come out of a dry hatch following this guide where we only hatched one who died at a week old so our hearts really want some babies to keep at the end of this one! Currently on day 9.

 

[Tonyroo]

If your able to incubate the eggs upright that might help your chances of the egg content to balance out. Egg carton will work just tilt every 4-6 hours.

 

[Doobly]

If your able to incubate the eggs upright that might help your chances of the egg content to balance out. Egg carton will work just tilt every 4-6 hours.

Thank you. They've been upright so far. Would you lie them down to hatch at all?

 

[lhance]

if they are still saddled when it comes to lock down, i would put them in cut down egg cartons for hatching, so you can keep them mostly upright then.

 

[Doobly]

if they are still saddled when it comes to lock down, i would put them in cut down egg cartons for hatching, so you can keep them mostly upright then.

Thank you. Would you treat the humidity any different?

 

[lhance]

Personally I don’t change the humidity. I always just go by egg weight as the develop and let that guide my humidity