Day 22 helping chicks hatch

So it’s been over 24 hours since my first post. I don’t know why but these chicks seem so tiny and not ready to be out (I have the days calculated exactly and written down today is officially Day 23 but they were put in on the morning before so actually 24 days old) but the first one came out except it’s yolk sac seems to still be attached to the shell so I wrapped it in a wet paper towel (as well as the other ones). Temp is staying at 38 except when I open it.
Not sure what else to do. Just keeping them damp around the shell but this little one has not absorbed it’s yolk or else it’s just attached somehow.
The other 2 I’ve left alone all day.
 

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Well done! That's great that the first one absorbed the yolk sac and is now in the brooder!
So it’s been over 24 hours since my first post. I don’t know why but these chicks seem so tiny and not ready to be out (I have the days calculated exactly and written down today is officially Day 23 but they were put in on the morning before so actually 24 days old) but the first one came out except it’s yolk sac seems to still be attached to the shell so I wrapped it in a wet paper towel (as well as the other ones). Temp is staying at 38 except when I open it.
Not sure what else to do. Just keeping them damp around the shell but this little one has not absorbed it’s yolk or else it’s just attached somehow.
The other 2 I’ve left alone all day.
In the second picture you posted it looks like there is a beak visible in the open egg on the right side? I zoomed in and it looks like a beak?
Fingers crossed for all your babies :fl
 
Final update for now. Only one survived. The first one. It’s now in a different incubator with a few egg buddies (had to take it out of the one it was in because we need to lock down the 3 eggs that are in that one. Unfortunately the other two just didn’t make it. Hoping this little one survives and hopefully in about 3 days we have some freshly hatched buddies for it.
It’s not walking yet but I’m now giving it a teensy bit of water with electrolytes. Just a drop by it’s beak and it’s drinking it up.
 

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