Shipped eggs question!

[Erin80]

So when my eggs arrived, one air cell was totally detached, and I had some that I “think” were saddled but shells are darker so hard to tell. They have been air cell end up in an egg carton for 6 days, I will candle all tomorrow. If all the air cells look fine and solid, do I need to keep them in the egg carton? Or can they now lay on their sides? What gives them a better chance?
I candled the one with detached air cell on day 4...super quick just to see, and it looked like it had re-attached and there was definitely growth going on (spider veins).

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I don't have any research to quote on this but my thought is that if an air cell ruptures, meaning that the inner membrane broke. I'm not convinced that keeping the eggs upright will somehow miraculously put the air back into the space between the two membranes and mend the inner membrane.
IMO, turning the eggs is much more important than trying to put the air cell back in place. In an egg turner, the egg is kept large end up but turned side to side but essentially large end up.
Frequent turning is critical for the formation of the essential chorion and amnion membranes feeding the embryo. It also keeps the yolk suspended as nearly in the center of the albumen mass.

 

[nchls school]

I had some duck eggs hatch a week ago. They were shipped eggs. Some came with normal air cells and some were saddled. I let them sit for 24 hours and then put them under a hen. A predator robbed the nest leaving me with five eggs; all with saddled air cells.The air cells never improved, but of the five, three hatched.

From this, I wouldn't expect the saddled cells to suddenly become normal, but even so, the can hatch-just expect to assist. One of my eggs internally pipped but was unable to externally pip. When two ducklings hatched on their own we assisted the third; which is now a normal healthy duckling. A fourth egg did internally pip. The duckling drowned as the air cell had filled with liquid water.

It is hard to know just how to treat shipped eggs. Good luck!

 

[Erin80]

I don't have any research to quote on this but my thought is that if an air cell ruptures, meaning that the inner membrane broke. I'm not convinced that keeping the eggs upright will somehow miraculously put the air back into the space between the two membranes and mend the inner membrane.
IMO, turning the eggs is much more important than trying to put the air cell back in place. In an egg turner, the egg is kept large end up but turned side to side but essentially large end up.
Frequent turning is critical for the formation of the essential chorion and amnion membranes feeding the embryo. It also keeps the yolk suspended as nearly in the center of the albumen mass.

Hopefully they’re ok. I’d read a really good article on shipped eggs (was posted on here) saying not to turn for the first 7 days if air cells look wonky...so I followed that advice (these are my first shipped eggs)...hopefully I didn’t kill them all! Very curious to candle them.

 

[ChristinLewin]

Hopefully they’re ok. I’d read a really good article on shipped eggs (was posted on here) saying not to turn for the first 7 days if air cells look wonky...so I followed that advice (these are my first shipped eggs)...hopefully I didn’t kill them all! Very curious to candle them.

i was given the same advice and I only had one hatch out of 25 did you have better results??