Arrival: Eggies!
Oct. 9th, 2010 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnGot the call around 8am, that my eggs were in. Managed to get myself upright, dressed and brushed my teeth without walking into the walls. Bad insomnia last night. That said: I did manage to clean the kitchen, hand scrub the laundry sink & floor, then my bathroom. So yanno, not a complete loss. Josh did the driving to the Oak Harbor post office, where we had to drive around back and pick them up from a madly grinning woman.
Whether they are unfertilized eggs in the fridge or fertilized eggs going in the incubator, the small pointed egg goes down and the larger, rounded shallow end goes up. In the former case, its to keep them fresh as long as possible. In the latter case, its because the air sack is at the shallow end. If one flips the egg wrong-side up, the air sack will rise up and destroy the developing embryo. Its very important that the shallow end is upright, so the chick can rise just prior to hatching and breathe air until it can poke a hole (aka pipping). Without that air bubble in the egg, the chick will smother to death in its own egg.
The eggs are just finishing up their post-traveling rest period, in roughly 20 minutes, I'll be popping them in the incubator and beginning the 21 day countdown.
Whether they are unfertilized eggs in the fridge or fertilized eggs going in the incubator, the small pointed egg goes down and the larger, rounded shallow end goes up. In the former case, its to keep them fresh as long as possible. In the latter case, its because the air sack is at the shallow end. If one flips the egg wrong-side up, the air sack will rise up and destroy the developing embryo. Its very important that the shallow end is upright, so the chick can rise just prior to hatching and breathe air until it can poke a hole (aka pipping). Without that air bubble in the egg, the chick will smother to death in its own egg.
The eggs are just finishing up their post-traveling rest period, in roughly 20 minutes, I'll be popping them in the incubator and beginning the 21 day countdown.
