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[chickensnewtome]

That would be ok with me. I just love the noise, unless it is like 4 in the morning and the neighbors hear....LOL! Then it would be AWESOME!!!!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Eggs need to be as fresh as possible, or at least kept in optimum conditions and turned regularly.

Can you try with fresh eggs? DO you know to watch the air cell for proper size development?? Might be better to talk via pm's and not tie things up here.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Eggs need to be as fresh as possible, or at least kept in optimum conditions and turned regularly.

Can you try with fresh eggs? DO you know to watch the air cell for proper size development?? Might be better to talk via pm's and not tie things up here.

Some of us are already physically tied up... and some of us have nothing better to do. Go ahead and talk air cells. I dare you.

 

[Arielle]

My brain is too scrambled to deal with air cells tonight. Surpized I can spell anything right tonight.

 

[ozexpat]

whats an air cell?

 

[Godsgrl]

whats an air cell?

An air cell is a small pocket of air in an egg. It's in the small end if I remember correctly. Next time you crack an egg for consumption, you can actually see the membrane in the shell. A chick pecks into that just before hatching, and takes a breath. Then he can work on hatching! At this stage, the chick will peep, you can hear it through the shell.

 

[Wisher1000]

It's actually in the big end, but you got everything else right! Got that Oz?

 

[ronott1]

This is watching the air cell develop during incubation:

This is a slight saddle air cell in a shipped egg.



This one is getting close to hatching--Egg is full with chick!




This shows what the air cell should look like for a chicken egg during incubation


Yes, those are pictures of eggs I incubated.

 

[ronott1]

Another fun series:

Blue and Black Australorp eggs were shipped to me in sawdust!



7 of them hatched!



They Grew very quickly!









Now they are 17 weeks old!

 

[ozexpat]

Another fun series:

Blue and Black Australorp eggs were shipped to me in sawdust!



7 of them hatched!



They Grew very quickly!









Now they are 17 weeks old!

you just posted that because I have been desperate for Australorp.

I deserve that for asking what an air cell is. I was going to say something about the aircells I have been known to produce but................

My poor eggs air cells never get that big. Humidity sucks