Hey there, a day after day 21 now and still no internal pip. It does seem like the air cell appears smaller than I've seen before others have hatched so I'm wondering if that's a contributing factor. From what I'm reading people say to only assist if it internally pips but can't externally pip...
It's a lighter brown egg and you can see inside them to candle pretty easily. Seems nice and solid nothing loose or jiggly which is why I thought it should be ok
So one of the eggs hatched 1-2ish days early and the other is due to hatch today but there are no signs it has pipped yet (small crack or peeping) but when candled it looks like it should for day 21 (solid dark except for the air bubble) which is why we were confident it would hatch. Is it...
I think it was pretty healthy otherwise, very strong but had an unfortunate beginning. Did yours fully recover feathers and sight? It's eyes are closed
So a little background, we had a mother hen sitting on some eggs, her sister who becomes broody when she does, tries to fight to sit on her eggs. We had secluded the sister in another pen so they wouldn't fight over the babies, but we let her free roam some and she somehow got back into the main...