My odds on my shipped eggs just plumeted :(

[ChickenCrazed]

Yes, I got the one black chick from the damaged air cell...It was the only black one I had left so I decided to leave it and see what would happen...I was delighted when it hatched today...These poor eggs get tossed around so much in shipping I am not sure what more can be done to protect them...All my eggs arrived in tact and packaged very well...So far I only have 6 chicks out of 24 eggs...25% hatch rate but hopefully a few more will hatch...The ones I have hatched have been worth it!

 

[KatieBugg]

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Very glad to know it is possible! I think at this point I would be very happy with 1 chick lol!

 

[Gypsy07]

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Sounds more like detached membrane around the air sac to me. Usually caused by rough handling during shipping. If these are shipped eggs, don't panic yet. Definitely doesn't sound like excess humidity, in any case by day 6 the egg shouldn't yet have lost very much moisture yet anyway. I'd say leave them till day 12-14, candle again, and only remove the definite clear eggs and any that smell funny, if there are any, which there probably won't be. I'm just mentioning it to be on the safe side! Leave in every egg that shows signs of development, and you might just get a pleasant surprise come hatch day.

I have almost given up trying to predict which shipped eggs will hatch and which won't, as even after years of practice I am only right about 50% of the time. Shipped eggs with loose aircells look weird when you're candling them, sometimes they look like there isn't any aircell at all and the whole inside of the egg is just murky, yet they can go on to hatch fine. My last hatch I had 6 that made it to lockdown that all looked fairly similar; 3 hatched fine by themselves and 3 turned out to be day 12-ish quitters. I couldn't tell the difference by candling...

 

[KatieBugg]

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Sounds more like detached membrane around the air sac to me. Usually caused by rough handling during shipping. If these are shipped eggs, don't panic yet. Definitely doesn't sound like excess humidity, in any case by day 6 the egg shouldn't yet have lost very much moisture yet anyway. I'd say leave them till day 12-14, candle again, and only remove the definite clear eggs and any that smell funny, if there are any, which there probably won't be. I'm just mentioning it to be on the safe side! Leave in every egg that shows signs of development, and you might just get a pleasant surprise come hatch day.

I have almost given up trying to predict which shipped eggs will hatch and which won't, as even after years of practice I am only right about 50% of the time. Shipped eggs with loose aircells look weird when you're candling them, sometimes they look like there isn't any aircell at all and the whole inside of the egg is just murky, yet they can go on to hatch fine. My last hatch I had 6 that made it to lockdown that all looked fairly similar; 3 hatched fine by themselves and 3 turned out to be day 12-ish quitters. I couldn't tell the difference by candling...

Thank you so much for the input!!! This is my first batch of shipped eggs, so I am pretty unfamiliar with what I am seeing. I feel like I am a newbie hatcher all over again lol.