Fixing ruptured and detached air cells

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I got 12 hatching eggs today and sadly all but one have either entirely detached or messed up air cells from there trip from Germany down to Italy... They were in shipping for roughly 4 days (left Monday morning and arrived today on Thursday around early to mid afternoon)

I've been letting them rest in their cartons bottom side up to let the air cells readjust and I plan on putting them in the incubator tomorrow afternoon... But I'm wondering... Is it a good idea to have them in my incubator bottom side up? What about the one with an intact air cell? I heard I can flip them back over to their sides after 7 days or so... But I'd this true?

Here's an example with one of my eggs from my flock of how I plan to incubate them...

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

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[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I've been settling for about 15-16 hours by now

 

[Susan Skylark]

You can’t fix them but they can still hatch, prepare yourself for a lousy hatch (mine was 25% on similar eggs) and you might be surprised! Half my deaths were normal eggs and half my hatched eggs were saddled air cells. The whole batch was traumatized by rough handling, the air cells are just a visible symptom, the bigger issue is damage to the undifferentiated embryonic cells which leads to weak, deformed, underdeveloped and dead in shell chicks. Also don’t be too quick to help weak chicks hatch, I tried on 4 and all were weak/underdeveloped and died, ugh!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I candled today and 5 (possibly 6) of the 12 eggs seem to be developing!!! 4 CCL and 1 of my bantam Thüringer Barthühner eggs have veins!

I am quite genuinely disappointed in the breeder though... Their CCL eggs were almost all had mis-shaped and rather mal-formed eggs with various she'll related problems

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

These CCL eggs should be roughly 50% opal too!!!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

These CCL eggs should be roughly 50% opal too!!!

I hope they hatch so I can start my olive egger project