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Should the air cell be up or down? (ducks)...

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Bob...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 7:00 am
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Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs. Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?
 
Bob...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:55 am
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On May 15, 12:31 pm, " Jill" <n... at (no spam) NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote:

[quote:f768768175]sideways

--
regards
Jill Bowis

Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Foodhttp://www.kintaline.co.uk
[/quote:f768768175]
You're the best!
 
Jill...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 1:31 pm
Guest
Bob wrote:
[quote:2a39a12f9e]Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs. Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?
[/quote:2a39a12f9e]
sideways

--
regards
Jill Bowis

Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Food
http://www.kintaline.co.uk
 
Jill...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 2:57 pm
Guest
Bob wrote:
[quote:b4d1167033]On May 15, 12:31 pm, " Jill" <n... at (no spam) NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote:

sideways


You're the best!
[/quote:b4d1167033]

noooo
just lateral !!
;)

--
regards
Jill Bowis

Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Food
http://www.kintaline.co.uk
 
A _L_ P...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 5:38 pm
Guest
Bob wrote:
[quote:59a782bcb8]On May 15, 12:31 pm, " Jill" <n... at (no spam) NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote:

sideways

--
regards
Jill Bowis

Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Foodhttp://www.kintaline.co.uk

You're the best!

That's the truth![/quote:59a782bcb8]

A L P
 
Ginny...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:18 pm
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Bob wrote:
[quote:f2f467b6c6]Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs. Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?
[/quote:f2f467b6c6]
Up if you're eggs sit on their ends like in an egg carton.

--
Ginny - In West Australia
 
Ginny...
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 11:19 pm
Guest
Jill wrote:
[quote:233ac7e123]Bob wrote:
Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs. Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?

sideways
[/quote:233ac7e123]
Some turners have the egg sitting upright though, then the air cell
needs to be up.

--
Ginny - In West Australia
 
Jill...
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 2:13 am
Guest
Ginny wrote:
[quote:59d04c7737]Jill wrote:
Bob wrote:
Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs. Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?

sideways

Some turners have the egg sitting upright though, then the air cell
needs to be up.
[/quote:59d04c7737]
Yup, if you cannot lie it down, then upwards, indeed, but you need to tilt
the eggs from side to side 3 times a day otherwise the embryo will stick.
Always an odd number of times so the egg is not lying on the same side
overnight.

--
regards
Jill Bowis

Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Food
http://www.kintaline.co.uk
 
Christina Websell...
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:23 pm
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" Jill" <news at (no spam) NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message
news:775tvcF1f0oh9U1 at (no spam) mid.individual.net...
[quote:d9cf2274f0]Bob wrote:
Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs. Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?

sideways
Unless the eggs are being incubated in an upward position as some incubators[/quote:d9cf2274f0]
like. In which case the air space should be up, with the pointed end of the
egg downwards.

Tina
 
Bob...
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 8:36 am
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On May 16, 3:23 pm, "Christina Websell"
<spamf... at (no spam) tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
[quote:28c07e5b68]" Jill" <n... at (no spam) NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote in message

news:775tvcF1f0oh9U1 at (no spam) mid.individual.net...> Bob wrote:
Hi all,

I'm at week 3 incubating some duck eggs.   Everything looks good for
the most part, but every egg I candled had its air cell in the
downward position in the turner!

Should it be upward?

sideways

Unless the eggs are being incubated in an upward position as some incubators
like.  In which case the air space should be up, with the pointed end of the
egg downwards.

Tina
[/quote:28c07e5b68]
Yes, well, there wasn't any pointed end. Or perhaps there was.
Nonetheless it turned out well.
 
 
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