Duckling Seems to be Internally Piping Too Early

[Steph21]

I currently have 1 egg in my incubator. The humidity has been kept relatively stable because I've been taking my classes online at home, so I've been able to keep an eye on it at pretty much all times. The one problem I've had is with the temperature. It's stayed between 99.5 F and 98.5 F (sometimes a little lower depending on how cold it is outside). Whenever I try to increase the temp in my incubator to be closer to 99.5F it ends up overheating so I have just let it stay in the 99.5 - 98.5 range. This is my second time incubating eggs (I hatched 6 eggs a few months ago), so this is still a little new to me, especially when they start to enter the hatching phase. I candled my egg last night and everything has been normal up until now. As of now, it is on day 22 of incubation but last night when I candled it (day 21), it looked like the duckling was attempting to internally pip. It was moving around a good bit and I could see it poking its beak into the air cell, however, it looked more like it was pushing at the membrane and not like it had actually internally piped yet. Is it too early for it to be doing this? The air cell has also gotten significantly bigger and is sort of sloped down on one side of the egg. I have increased the humidity and basically have it on semi-lockdown but I've searched all over the Internet and can't find any answers. Does anyone have any advice? I can post pictures later if that would be helpful.

The duckling has hatched without any assistance!!!

 

[kyeschicks]

I'm glad!! Congrats!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

A pip and an actual hatch are 2 diff things. An a pipped egg is not ready to hatch that is why they say don't help.(Could be another 12-24 hrs before actual finish of hatch.) I know you didn't help, I just had to say, incase people are reading this.

 

[Steph21]

A pip and an actual hatch are 2 diff things. An a pipped egg is not ready to hatch that is why they say don't help.(Could be another 12-24 hrs before actual finish of hatch.) I know you didn't help, I just had to say, incase people are reading this.

The egg had been pipped externally for about 48 hours, that's why I was considering assisting but it started actually hatching not long after I made that post.