I usually just crack the top fast and long enough to grab a chick that has hatched and fluffed to keep it from soccer balling the other eggs around the incubator. I've had chicks roll pipped eggs onto the pip and had to stick a couple of fingers in to roll it upright again.


Hopefully they will get you in faster than 'a couple of weeks'. That is just mind blowing especially when you are having symptoms like the ones you are having.
