Java Green Peacock eggs with large air cell Please Help!!

[javapeacock]

We bought some eggs online and they were shipped to us. We are experiencing a problem can anyone help? We have two Java Green peacock eggs they are on day 17 as of 5/6/2012 we candled them starting on day 1 to see the air cell was large for day one it took up about 20% of the egg. From what I understand this means the eggs were old. Anyway we decided to set the eggs anyway and on day 10 we candle the eggs and the eggs had a very large air cell it takes up almost a 1/3 of the egg. In addition the air cell is very irregular. But it is not ruptured the air cell does not move around. From what I can find online everyone says the eggs will die basically because they run out of room in the shell. On day 10 we raised the humidity from 60% (slowly) to 85 – 90 % to slow the dehydration in the egg. On day 17 the air cell is the same size as on day 10. The babies are growing and doing wonderful so fair. What I am wondering has anyone out there ever hatched a peacock egg that has a large irregular air cell? I know high humidity is bad for the egg to because the chick will get swollen and can’t get out of the shell. What I was thinking is maybe I can keep the humidity high until the last 5 days and then lower the humidity to 75% will that help with the swollen chick problem? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I figure if they are going to die anyway might as well try something! Please see the attached pictures. Thank you for your help
This is egg one this picture is at day 10.


This is egg two this picture is at day 10.

 

[Habibs Hens]

lower the humidity and follwo egg weight closly

 

[kvmommy]

I had a few like that in my last hatch. Some the air cell didn't grow too bad and I think one hatched from that, but the others kept growing until all the chicks died, fully formed but completely scrunched. By the time it was hatch time the aircells took up over 2/3 of the egg. I wonder if in that instance if those had higher humidity would it have made a difference but there was no way to find out with compromising the other eggs. I've had it happen a few times and it was from shipped eggs. I don't think they are scrambled aircells or detached aircells per se, I think its just damaged aircells that just don't grow properly. None of my aircells moved or jiggled but were still like that. Good luck!

 

[javapeacock]

About how old were your chicks when they ran out of room in the shell and died? On day 19 the air cells are still the same size as day 10 but maybe they haven’t ran out of room yet. So fair they both hanging in there. I have the humidity set at 85%.