Muscovy egg has 2 air pockets?

[grendle]

This is my first time trying to incubate eggs. I was letting my broody hen set them but then i went to check on the ducks after work and the hen was off the nest and the eggs were ice cold. I candled them and none were moving so i cracked one open and the chick inside was almost fully developed but dead. So i checked the others again before breaking them just in case and two moved just a little bit. So i took them home and created an on the spot incubator. 2 of the eggs are doing fine and are much livlier now under the lamp but one egg has a second air pocket on the side. Has anyone seen this before? What is it?

 

[GitaBooks]

I'm glad some of the eggs are doing well!

As for the second air pocket, I've never seen it or heard of it before. Perhaps that is a rotten egg? Eggs that are old tend to have really large egg sacks. Also, sometimes a chick is positioned so that there looks to be an air sac there but isn't.

Best of luck!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

This is my first time trying to incubate eggs. I was letting my broody hen set them but then i went to check on the ducks after work and the hen was off the nest and the eggs were ice cold. I candled them and none were moving so i cracked one open and the chick inside was almost fully developed but dead. So i checked the others again before breaking them just in case and two moved just a little bit. So i took them home and created an on the spot incubator. 2 of the eggs are doing fine and are much livlier now under the lamp but one egg has a second air pocket on the side. Has anyone seen this before? What is it?

HI!

Is there anyway you can get a pic of what you are seeing?? Are you candling from the top/rounded end down into the egg? It is possible that the air cell "ruptured" and split into two, but that usually happens with shaken/shipped eggs that have been jostled or handled very roughly. If you incubate that in an incubator I would say to try incubating that one upright in a cutdown carton. Make sure you also have humidity up for their hatching.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Also, farther into the incubation the air cell on many eggs will tilt to one side like this:


Some more tilted than the pic some less.

 

[grendle]

No it actually had a normal air cell and then another one on the side. But it turned out to be rotten.