3 questions!

[EnnieM]

1. 46/89 of my shipped eggs have detached air cells.. I put them into the incubator in cardboard cartons with holes in the bottom (don’t have a turner) pointy end down. Any chance they’ll reattach..? Should I wait a few days to turn (well, till) rather than 1 day?
2. One of my incubators went down to 92F, and then up to 102F. Both temps could have been that way for up to 2-3 hours. Day 1. Should I expect them all to be dead when I candle at 8 days?
3. When I candled before placing them in the incubator, I seen the yolk in each. However, a few had a small pencil eraser size dark spot that moved throughout the egg. What is this?
Starting to think shipping this far was a bad idea...

 

[Knighstar679]

1. 46/89 of my shipped eggs have detached air cells.. I put them into the incubator in cardboard cartons with holes in the bottom (don’t have a turner) pointy end down. Any chance they’ll reattach..? Should I wait a few days to turn (well, till) rather than 1 day?
2. One of my incubators went down to 92F, and then up to 102F. Both temps could have been that way for up to 2-3 hours. Day 1. Should I expect them all to be dead when I candle at 8 days?
3. When I candled before placing them in the incubator, I seen the yolk in each. However, a few had a small pencil eraser size dark spot that moved throughout the egg. What is this?
Starting to think shipping this far was a bad idea...

1) yes try this some times they can reattach you can either tilt them three times a day like you would if the were sitting on a counter or leave them sitting flat depending on how badly you think they are.

2) they could still be alive. I had both happen during a power outage. Most of my eggs still hatched, you may have delayed hatch though.

3) this one I cannot answer for you.

 

[aart]

3. When I candled before placing them in the incubator, I seen the yolk in each. However, a few had a small pencil eraser size dark spot that moved throughout the egg. What is this?

Might have been a meat or blood spot.

Here's some good info on hatching.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...incubator-thermometers-and-hygrometers.73634/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-incubation.73350/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubation-humidity.73386/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/guide-to-assisted-hatching-for-all-poultry.72886/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...gs-no-problem.1046313/page-5385#post-16540512

 

[chickens really]

1. 46/89 of my shipped eggs have detached air cells.. I put them into the incubator in cardboard cartons with holes in the bottom (don’t have a turner) pointy end down. Any chance they’ll reattach..? Should I wait a few days to turn (well, till) rather than 1 day?
2. One of my incubators went down to 92F, and then up to 102F. Both temps could have been that way for up to 2-3 hours. Day 1. Should I expect them all to be dead when I candle at 8 days?
3. When I candled before placing them in the incubator, I seen the yolk in each. However, a few had a small pencil eraser size dark spot that moved throughout the egg. What is this?
Starting to think shipping this far was a bad idea...

@WVduckchick

 

[WVduckchick]

89 eggs?!? what breed?

Consider yourself lucky that not ALL were detached. It happens.
But yes, they *can* reattach. Usually by about day 10-14, they will firm back up, maybe remain a little saddled. For me, turning or not for the first day usually depends on how detached they were. Free-floating, fully loose and floating around the egg, I might give 2 days without moving. If they are just a little loose, I usually start turning sooner. Maybe 12 hours after starting incubation.
Put your worst ones in the same carton, and give them an extra day maybe?
(Side note - be careful with cartons, that when you tilt, you don’t actually cause the eggs to become closer to the heating mechanism in your incubator!). What kind are you using?


2. No problem at all. Higher than 104+ could kill them, but 102 isn’t a death sentence. Should be fine.

3. I’d guess meat spot, or possibly blood speck. Ever opened an egg to eat and find a little speck of blood? Depending how big, it could either be absorbed by the chick upon hatch, or it may stop developing. Pretty sure I’ve had both cases happen.

Good luck! Shipped eggs are almost always a gamble. Distance doesn’t matter to me as much as which post offices they travel thru. Some POs are worse than others.