Sally THANK YOU for all that you do. Both here in this thread and across BYC. The information you have compiled is beyond words useful. I know its taken a lot of hours and frustration on your part but again I can't begin to desribe how useful and helpful it has been to me and countless others. So again THANK YOU for all of your hard work and please never shut up.
@mlm Mike has them
Quote: I would like the same question. I had an incubator that did the same thing....Why does a person need to set the eggs with lowest dip up?
Cyndi see the 911 section of the notes and look into hatch analysis and what went wrong... many issues can cause this or combo, I am hesitant to pull info eeeeeekkkkk uggggghhhhhh but its there for your reading! see red wording below
MARKING AIR CELLS DAY 18
Candle day 18 is to determine growth, weigh, pencil mark air cell size and dispose bad eggs. It will look pretty dark and FULL in there! You may or may not see movement on this candle. Its ok if not, don’t panic! The chick may easily be resting! The embryo now occupies most of space within the egg, but NOT the air cell, the beak is against the inner shell membrane and ready to pierce it.
See how that air cell is beginning to dip more to one side and if you lay the egg down it will roll into the hatching position. I set my eggs with lowest dip in the aircell up. This position for hatching is good so the chick is able to turn into position and I can easily see my pips too! Setting eggs horizontal in the hatcher actually can aid a chick to hatch 1-2 hours earlier. (HOWEVER, shipped eggs that have had loose air cells or saddle air cells, should be hatched upright but tilted just enough so that the lowest dip is somewhat upright, so if they have fluid in the air cell it may prevent drowning).
AGAIN, I lay my eggs down LOWEST DIP of the AIR CELL UP! see below images, this is the normal and most likely hatching position and the chick will break through or Internally pip and externally pip in that probable area. See the image below with the x, x being lowest dip in air cell and probably pip area/s.
Chick normal hatching position, Where to place your X, Example of chick position/beak in shell
before internal pip drawing below: image below:
drawing below:
MARKING AIR CELLS DAY 18, DRAW DOWN, INTERNAL PIP, EXTERNAL PIP, and ZIPPING post #35770
Pips and ZIPS ARE NOT THE SAME PATIENCE is a MUST!
Sally did you see my candling pic last night? I fiddled with the colors so it GLOWS.
