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Egg cells slant good but no signs of movement

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May 19, 2011
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Inside ... 3 eggs I pulled have great slating and a few days ago I could see movement inside but yesterday and today I see no signs of movement or the Peachicks shadows.. Concerned. Another egg I have I can see the Peachicks shadow in the higher side of the air sack so hoping pipping will follow soon...
Is it possible they have died? These eggs were pulled from one of my hens after she had them for 20 days BUT unsure of exact hatch date as there was four eggs she started sitting on (and not marked by me) and when I went to take eggs there were seven so either she laid more or a different hen added to her nest... She started sitting on the original four on May 31 ... What do yall think??
 
Update: I can clearly hear a Peachick now from egg 1 and shadowing in egg 2....!!!
Egg 1 --- hear the chick but no sign of any zipping....
I brought the eggs in from under the peahen swapping them out with chicken eggs from a sitting Cochin ..
 
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So this morning when I took the peahens eggs I candled them all once inside.
2 appear to be ready to zip but no outward signs on shell, shadows and peeping inside.
By the air cell of #3 it should be in that group but no shadow or anything.
Eggs 4 & 5 are right behind them by maybe a day or two?? But again no signs of movement noticed. And eggs 6 & 7 poss another couple days after that if this is at all possible...veining at upper edge very slightly ....I'm judging this by the air cell on each egg... I'm very impatient but am waiting anxiously to see if any and how many of these eggs hatch! Please let me get one and hopefully more!
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He's on his tummy with a piece of sack? behind him..
Been trying to attach a photo but can't seem to get it to embed?

Probably just a bit of that umbilical that attaches to the membrane, usually it pulls loose after they have been out of the shell and kind of belly crawling and rolling around for a little while.
 
Think s/he might be splayed legged??
Still has his baggage but it's drying but hasn't walked and thinking maybe splay leg is his problem? His little legs stick out from his sides kinda??
On egg 2 still hearing internal pipping but nothing from egg 3 and air sack end of egg 3 feels cooler than the others... Air sack has grown on both eggs...
Feel like I'm writing a journal to myself...
 
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