First time hatching eggs....help with a duck egg maybe shrink wrapped but still moving

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Hi everyone, I'm new, I've been looking at a lot of threads on here throughout my incubation period.

I've got one chick "Mojo" that hatched successfully after no sign of life. I had another 2 chicken eggs which were moving loads but didn't hatch. I opened one up and it looked like it was shrink wrapped.

Now I've got two duck eggs, one pipped yesterday and I can see the beak. The other hadn't pipped, I candled it and thought I saw an internal pip. So I pipped the shell myself ....just a tiny hole on the air sack. Looking inside I cant see that it has internally pipped. Its moving and I've heard some squeeks. I have wet the internal membrane a little bit with a small soft paintbrush as it looked like it wa s a bit dry. Whenever I've opened the incubator I've put a paper towel soaked in hot water in there to keep the humidity up.

Is that the right thing to do? Should I do anything else? How long before the one that has pipped should hatch out?

This is my first try at incubating in a homemade incubator and I dont want to lose this duckling like I lost the other two chicks :/

Any advice gratefully received :)
 
If it's stuck, increase humidity , perhaps wrap a wet paper towel around the egg. If it's stuck you may need to help it out. Do this by peeling the shell away from its head and back. Stay away from the abdomen as this is where the internal portions of the duckling could still be outside in and around the yoke. Usually if its shrink wrapped, the duckling is ready to hatch, but just stuck. Help will go a long way.
 

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