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Thank you! I’m going to go to bed pretty soon and see what it looks like in the morning. Again, if it hatches ok, do you think I can put it with chicks 4 days older than it?Sorry to hear
Unfortunately, there’s really nothing you can do right now but wait. This period is a quiet but critical one where the last bit of yolk is being absorbed and the blood vessels recede. There’s not much you can do to help until that process is done.
The good news is, the chick has full access to air, and has the luxury to take its time for the final preparations.
When the chick is ready, it will chirp and struggle to make that final zip and pop out of the shell.
In my first hatch I had one pip completely on the wrong end. I was biting my nails the whole time, waiting for the moment I would need to step in and help it out. It turns out I didn’t need to worry at all, she hatched herself just fine
Oh, and if the pip missed the airsac, the chick will need up to 48 hours to hatch due to making a simultaneous internal and external pip!