I have been working on hatching some turkeys and haven't been successful yet in getting any live poults. I have noticed one thing with candling them that I am wondering if it is normal or not? The last two batches that went in--one in an incubator and another under a broody hen--I managed to completely forget when I put them in and when they were due, so I have been candling them pretty often to try to figure out when to expect them. I have noticed both times that as they get really close to hatching time that the air cell seems to...not sure how exactly to describe it and can't get a good picture...but it is like it goes sort of sideways instead of being right at the round end of the egg. So, as I candle, I can see through it on one side, but if I turn the egg over, the air cell seems to disappear, like it is only on one side of the egg, and it is dark on the other side. I noticed this with the last bunch, and they never pipped, so I opened them to find live poults that ended up dying a couple of days later. When I first saw this, I thought it was that the poult was in the air cell, but when I opened the eggs, they had not pipped internally at all. Is this normal, for the air cell to look that way? The eggs weren't shipped, so it's not damage to them from that.
