float test - confused!

[MuranoFarms]

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YES! This is an accurate post. ALWAYS check very carefully for a pip before you float test an egg. If you float test an egg that has pipped it will drown the chick! I never bother with the float or sink part.....I candle before lockdown to remove duds so I don't need to worry about that. I float the egg after hatch day and watch for movement. If the egg wiggles on its own it is alive and goes back in the hatcher. If it doesn't.....there really isn't harm in putting it back in 'just in case' but I've never had one not wiggle and then hatch.

Ranchhand, it does make sense that developed eggs get heavier, but the aircells are bigger also. I think that is what makes it float.

 

[deerman]

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YES! This is an accurate post. ALWAYS check very carefully for a pip before you float test an egg. If you float test an egg that has pipped it will drown the chick! I never bother with the float or sink part.....I candle before lockdown to remove duds so I don't need to worry about that. I float the egg after hatch day and watch for movement. If the egg wiggles on its own it is alive and goes back in the hatcher. If it doesn't.....there really isn't harm in putting it back in 'just in case' but I've never had one not wiggle and then hatch.

Ranchhand, it does make sense that developed eggs get heavier, but the aircells are bigger also. I think that is what makes it float.

Yes the aircell makes it float, same reason old stored eggs flost. reason i don't see how it prove a egg is good, , bad for a stored egg and good for incubated????? Guess if egg was moving ,that would prove live chick inside.