Day 19 - does this chick look ok?

[TempletonPeck]

Hello!

Day 19 has just passed, and there are lots of little pulsing wobbles from my egg. It's the only surviving egg from a (shipped) batch, and it's also my first incubation, so I'm being overly, ridiculously attentive. I managed to talk myself into the belief that the wobbles were the chick having missed the air sac with an internal pip, and gasping.

So I candled it, and the air sac has reduced a lot and it's surely ready to hatch?

Please, forum-friends, talk me down (again) from wanting to assist!

(I don't have a hygrometer and the thermometer is the Brinsea's own one that came with the incubator but 3 other eggs - a different batch - are currently doing well in there so I'm assuming all is well. I can't do anything about gathering calibrated measurements at this point, even with Amazon Prime)

 

[nuthatched]

The wobbling is the chick getting into position to pip, try to set it back in the same position it was in.
It looks good!

 

[TempletonPeck]

Thank you - I managed to set it exactly how it was thanks to the many, many bits of proud footage I have of it wobbling a thousandth of a millimetre!
This is so, so exciting.

 

[TempletonPeck]

Just woken up (UK based) and no progress with egg - occasional little wobble but that’s it. No external pip or peeping. Now firmly into day 20

 

[TempletonPeck]

This is the result!

 

[garp94]

YAY