Update: I'm not sure what to do from here. It was recommended that in a sterile way I open the pip. So I did. Movement, and the first chirps ever from this chick. Then noticing the membrane was very very white I was told to carefully chip the shell away. So I did. Shell is mostly gone and...
I also want to add that it's generally not advised to keep pigeons and doves together. Pigeons can possibly hurt and fatally injure doves. While maybe sometimes they will get along it's not something I personally recommend doing.
Im also afraid of shrink wrapping it if I do this. One part of the X shaped crack looks so easy to just nip off as it sticks up a little. As it is I can't see inside the egg at all though.
I guess I should add I know it's possible to never hear some chirp until hatch but this egg has never chirped once. Playing chick sounds or hearing the chicks in the brooder across the room if it can hasn't done anything. I want it to live and I'm panicking honestly. It was nerve wracking...
Im going to be honest I don't know if you can even see it. Its a little hard to take pictures through the tiny window of a Styrofoam incubator.
This egg is a little late. Today is day 24. It finally pipped yesterday if you can see it at the end of the egg. That little X shaped crack that...
Meet my doves from left to right Frost, Vanilla, Cinnamon, and Peach. 💕 (Peach was going through a molt during this pic. ^^') I got into doves when I saved a two day old abandoned Eurasian collared dove. He was my first ever and I'd named him Sora. A year later followed Peach from a different...