Candled Egg Day 23 Question - Lots of Labored Movement or Normal Internal Pipping Movement?

[wjmccoy]

We had 3 eggs left from our hatch and I candled them to see if we should continue on. Don't fret, I steamed up the bathroom, the humidity never got below 70 and its 65% in the bator. Two look like lost causes, but we'll give them a few more days to make sure. One has a rhythmic movement, like labored breathing, probably about about 2/3 of a second apart. Do you think this is normal movement trying to pip through the internal membrane or nearing the end of his ability to pip? I'm pro intervention as a last resort, and would rather lose a chick trying to save it than letting nature take its course as a definite loss.

 

[wjmccoy]

It was the end of not being able to hatch for those with a similar question. I didn't want to help him out to find out he hadn't absorbed his yolk sac, already one chick in the hospital with a sever spraddle issue.