Is this a normal air cell???

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It is day 6 currently of my EE LF chicken eggs. I candled them all and they seem to be doing just fine....
I don’t know if this air cell is normal or not. I’m asking because if you see in the picture there is a little bit of a curve in the shape of the air cell. Is it normal?
Here are pictures for two different angles:
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It looks like you have a saddled air cell. It also looks pretty large to only be on day 6. Are you using an incubator? If so, your humidity may be need to be increased. Unfortunatelt, I've never had any luck with saddled air cells. Typically with my experience, the air cell becomes completely detached.
 
It looks like you have a saddled air cell. It also looks pretty large to only be on day 6. Are you using an incubator? If so, your humidity may be need to be increased. Unfortunatelt, I've never had any luck with saddled air cells. Typically with my experience, the air cell becomes completely detached.
Yes I am using an incubator its being kept on 99.5 F. The humidity has been anywhere from 50-55%
Thank you for your reply!!
I really hope it hatches though :fl
 
It is day 6 currently of my EE LF chicken eggs. I candled them all and they seem to be doing just fine....
I don’t know if this air cell is normal or not. I’m asking because if you see in the picture there is a little bit of a curve in the shape of the air cell. Is it normal?
Here are pictures for two different angles:
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Are these eggs shipped or local/your own eggs? It is a little saddled but not bad. The shape of that one shouldn’t be a problem at hatch. Do the rest of the eggs have normal shaped air cells?
 
Are these eggs shipped or local/your own eggs? It is a little saddled but not bad. The shape of that one shouldn’t be a problem at hatch. Do the rest of the eggs have normal shaped air cells?
These are shipped eggs... The rest of the eggs air cells are normal. I really hope it’ll hatch still.
 
These are shipped eggs... The rest of the eggs air cells are normal. I really hope it’ll hatch still.
That’s actually very “normal” looking for shipped eggs. The air cells easily become loose in shipping. Awesome that you got shipped eggs that had mostly normal air cells!! As long as everything else goes ok you should be fine with that one. Good luck!
 
That’s actually very “normal” looking for shipped eggs. The air cells easily become loose in shipping. Awesome that you got shipped eggs that had mostly normal air cells!! As long as everything else goes ok you should be fine with that one. Good luck!
Okay thank you so much!!
 
i had 3 air saddle ones and i put them in a egg carton on lockdown with the largest of the airsaddle facing upwards and all 3 hatched.
 

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