Goose egg wiggling on day 24?

So at least four goslings have hatched! I am not entirely sure how many more though because the tiny and dirty incu windows are covered in water droplets because of the humidity spike the goslings caused.
Two were starting to zip when the incu fogged up so I am sure they are out (just can't see them) and I am hopeful that a few more will hatch because all of them are fully developed, at least I was relatively confident of such before lock down.
 
Okay so! I have not taken a picture of them now that they are fuzzy (I will soon!) but eight hatched out of 12. Sadly one died after hatching so we have seven living goslings. The last gosling to hatch also got it's head pecked or something while it was in the incu because it has a sore, fuzzless spot on its head. Other than that all of the hatched goslings (and the ones we got in the mail) are doing great!
I did eggtopsies and one eggs was an early quitter, the rest were fully developed but died in the egg for some reason. Only one of those actually pipped, the others didn't get a chance to pip. I am going to say that their deaths was caused by messed up air sacks because they were shipped eggs as all the ones with good air sacks hatched without much difficulty and are running around in the brooder. It might also have been something with my incu as it is a very old incu (my uncles used it when they were kids).
But yeah I will take pics next time I go outside.
 
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