Are air cells ok?

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May 28, 2020
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I had these eggs shipped to me. They were packaged well and marked as fragile etc however the post office still damaged the box to the point 4 eggs were heavily cracked/ buster and raw egg was all over inside of box. I have 15 left from shipment that are intact. When candled prior to incubating this is what some look like. Is this considered a detached air cell? It doesn’t look like all the typical pictures online of a detached air cell so I am not sure. I am using the nurture right 360 I set them Thursday 3/24. Out of caution I don’t have the egg turner in and I have them pointed side down in egg crate and I just rotating minimally about twice a day.
Would they be ok to lay down with auto egg turner? Do I need to have lower humidity with them in current position to correct air cell? All advice is appreciated. Thank you.
 

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Yes, shipping causes detached and saddled air cells. Quite often the saddled ones will develop. Sorry, your pictures just don't show the air cells good enough for me to give an opinion. I have never had air cells correct themselves. When you candled, any eggs that had floating bubbles are likely not to develop. Candling the eggs Tuesday or Wednesday will show which are developing. Good luck.
 
Interested to see pics in few more days to compare...I recently did a hatch of eggs that traveled from Hawaii to Tennessee...quite a few props with air cells. I'm still learning as well so please post pics if u can in few days.

I will say that @LadiesAndJane was a huge help in me incubating those eggs since she is way more experienced!
 

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