Shipped eggs - Detached air cells! What can I do to give them the best chance?!?

[oregonkat]

When you candled the eggs, were the air cells saddled and wiggly around the edges? Could you move the air cell from the fat end of the egg to the pointy end?

I have not incubated shipped eggs under a broody. All you can do is try. I would allow them to settle for at least 24 hours, nice and cool, not warm.....
Good luck, please let us know how your broodies do with them.

 

[AshleySGM]

I'm currently incubating ruptured air cell eggs. I figured it wouldn't hurt to try. I didn't know about the wait 24 hours or any of that so I just set them immediately in the incubator and let them go. Mine are in an egg turner. I bought these pretty inexpensively on ebay and had them shipped to me. I got them to test out our new incubator. They arrived last Wednesday. I'd heard you should let them rest before incubation but since they all had ruptured air cells when I candled, I figured there was no reason, we'd have no chicks from them anyway. So I put them straight in. I also added some eggs from my own group of chickens but it was less than a week the rooster had been with them so I figured they weren't fertile. Well yesterday evening I took just 3 of the shipped dozen eggs and 2 of our homebred and candled. 2 of the 3 shipped were questionable but possibly have embryos and the 3rd definitely did. The 2 homebred were empty. I read that day 10 should show the quitters so I'm going to candle my homebreds on day 7 to see if any are developing and if not toss them, and I'll wait till day 10 to touch the shipped eggs and see where we stand.