Shipped eggs with detached air cell lockdown ??

[Shanna-stephens]

Wow

Terms are a bit confusing and used kinda interchangeably. But to me, ‘detached’ is when the air cell floats all around the egg, totally loose, no matter which end of the egg is up or down, the air cell floats to the top. If it’s just stretched from the original small circle, I call that ‘saddled’. Like the egg sat on its side in the box, and it caused the two membranes to slightly separate around the original area. Usually it’s down two sides, like a saddle.

Anyway, another way to hatch with messed up air cells is to cut short (1” maybe?) pieces of a paper towel/toilet paper roll, and place the eggs upright in them. You can actually tilt the egg a little, depending on the position of the chick. Usually the darkest area, up closest to the air cell is the back of the chicks neck and the chick should pip on the opposite side from that. So I would slightly slant the egg with the expected pip side highest.

As far as turning while you were gone, I wouldn’t worry about having someone come to do it. They should be fine.

Thank you so much for your response... I think we will try hatching the way you suggested! I am so glad to hear something that makes sense to me. And I'm so glad not to have to hire a baby sitter tomorrow.