BesideStillWaters
Crowing
I was originally going to start this thread yesterday, to ask what to expect from the air cell being on the pointy end and maybe being oddly shaped. I held off on asking because I didn't see movement on the candling yesterday, and I suspected she was dead. But the little guy decided to pip about an hour ago, two days early... on the round end where the air cell SHOULD be. My suspicions were wrong, she isn't dead, haha!
So now I'm concerned... since she is hatching out on the right end but the air cell isn't there, does she have a good chance of making it? Will she bleed to death by hitting a vessel? What should I expect? Also, I sealed the crack in the egg with nail polish and I didn't shake the egg or anything, so how did the air cell end up on the cracked pointy end? And how does it end up saddled shaped? This egg is the first egg my GLW laid after an over-a-month-and-a-half-long break, so was it made wrong when my hen laid it since she was JUST starting to lay again? Here are the photos I took of candling before the pip.
Here is how I'm holding the egg in the photo above since the air cell is in such an odd place:
So now I'm concerned... since she is hatching out on the right end but the air cell isn't there, does she have a good chance of making it? Will she bleed to death by hitting a vessel? What should I expect? Also, I sealed the crack in the egg with nail polish and I didn't shake the egg or anything, so how did the air cell end up on the cracked pointy end? And how does it end up saddled shaped? This egg is the first egg my GLW laid after an over-a-month-and-a-half-long break, so was it made wrong when my hen laid it since she was JUST starting to lay again? Here are the photos I took of candling before the pip.
Here is how I'm holding the egg in the photo above since the air cell is in such an odd place: