Un-attached aircells

[MuranoFarms]

Yesterday I got a shipment of 14 eggs and not 1 aircell was attached! I swear, somebody had to shake that box! They've been sitting over 24 hours and only 4 of them look stable.

This is after I lost a whole hatch last week. Will I never hatch another silkie???? UGH!

Thanks for letting me vent.

 

[MissDeb]

I was just curious, what does a detached aircell look like? I noticed some of my recent eggs that were shipped up, the aircell
almost looked like it was liquid moving around? Is that it?

 

[klf73]

a fully detached cell will move to the small end of the egg if you turn it over, in my experience NONE have even started to develop. A partially detached cell will move down the side of the egg but part is still stuck to the top, I have had success hatching these..

 

[klf73]

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that is frustrating as it isn't the seller or the buyers fault but most of the time the buyer eats it(unless you have an awesome seller that will try a second batch for shipping). I hope something develops for you

 

[mayberrygirl]

I feel your pain - I have 1 of 12 silkies that is forming that I ordered from a BYC member, 7 had detached air cells, 2 quit and 2 never started

- out of 3 red silkies from MPC there are 2 forming 1 was detached air cell. Sometimes I hate my PO

 

[MuranoFarms]

Well, I went ahead and set them. None of them were completely detached, but some of them looked pretty bad. I hope I at least hatch a few....I need new blood in the flock!

awww, mayberry...I hope your silkie hatches!

 

[Redcatcher]

I just got a dozen eggs in the mail today, and while they were well packed, they were crammed into a box (USPS medium flat rate) that was way too small. These were not bantam eggs, either. All had detached air cells. In the past I have had extremely poor luck with them. I did some research this time and after reading through some threads on this forum and others, I decided to let them rest large end up. Well, after several hours of not being disturbed, all but the worst one has mostly reattached! It turns out that other people have gotten really good results by incubating these eggs with the large end up. This position is actually supposed to be better for the eggs than laying on their sides. I am using a clear plastic egg "carton" but the eggs are small enough so that there is space around them and I have a fan in my incubator. I am very optomistic.

 

[mayberrygirl]

Being on day 10 for that bator none of the detached air cell eggs did anything - here is to hoping for the 3 that are looking good.

 

[Crunchie]

I've gotten eggs that the air cells were not just loose, but broken--as in, not one whole bubble of air, but a mass of teensy bubbles. Literally scrambled inside!! It is frustrating because even the best packaging won't protect against it if the box is shaken enough (the aforementioned shipment was packaged very well--definitely not the shipper's fault).

I recently had an egg from my own birds with a loose air cell (I don't know what kind of party they were having in the nest box!

) that developed to about day 7, then quit. I've never had luck hatching any with loose air cells.

 

[Chick-Magnet-Bill]

I have an egg in the bator now that has a broken air cell, and it is growing very well. I think it helps that I'm using a turner, that keeps the are cell where it is supposed to be. I will also hatch in a egg carton, to keep the air cell where it should be.