When you say floating do you mean if you were to lay it on it's side and roll the egg, the air cell would follow you? it would look like a bubble? this is called deatached air cell. Or do you mean if you lay the egg on it's side it stays at the larger end but you can see if moving around, doesn't go past the top, just moves around at the top? this is called loose air cell..
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I'm glad I found this thread. I'm having a lot of trouble with this hatch. This egg got rolled over pip side down so I removed the two hatched chicks, righted the egg, and added water to my Brinsea. This morning no progress and the membrane was brown and stiff. I applied a wet q-tip and it immediately started to pip more but it's stuck at this stage. Looks like the membrane has hardened and it can't get out. What to do? There are two more eggs in the bator, no visible pips, but I haven't checked yet to see if they are also pip side down.
if you have an automatic egg turner, then the fat end up like you have it. When it's time to go into lockdown then you remove auto egg turner and lay them flat. I put cheesecloth covered with paper towels for them to hatch out on. Lockdown is when you up the humidity for hatching. I hope I understood your question correctly.
Some people hatch upright and some lay them down on the sides. With shipped eggs with wobbly air cells the belief is that it's better for them to be upright until they at least stabilize. You're using the turner, right? Most people take them out at hatch time and lay them down to hatch or put them in cut down cartons to hatch. It's mostly just personal preference.
Since he's hatched out I guess I don't have to chime in. LOL Congrats!!It hatched!!!!
Blooie - never a dumb question.
