Hatch-a-Long - Shipped Eggs, Badly Detached and Wonky Air Cells: Lockdown!

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Managed to see into the one egg that had a criminally small air cell. It just never developed like the others. It's a good bit bigger now! It might make it! The other egg continues to wiggle away. No peeping tho.

 

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One of these other eggs literally just spun itself a half an inch around in a circle. LOL!

 

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The big front egg is going crazy. The stream is still up and live and will be running through hatch.

Edit: New streaming link, had to reboot.

 

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I've never had such a strong wiggler before. This chick is rotating its egg like crazy. The one with the terrible, terrible air cell. I'm fond of it already, I hope it hatches safely.

Edit: In other news, the replacement 6 Cream Legbar eggs are all fertile! Babies in every egg.

 

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Big Wiggly is not moving at all this morning, though it's clearly done a near 90 degree rotation overnight. There were clearly 3 abortive attempts at pipping overnight, direct to external and not via the air cell. I am hoping it's just resting before making it's final run, but I have always been worried it would never be able to get into position because of the shape of, and probable restrictiveness of motion due to, the air cell.

Edit: It just rolled itself 1/4" of an inch! Good luck Wiggly! Today's the day it would seem.

Edit 2: It hasn't so much as jiggled since, I wonder if I bumped my desk and didn't realize it. Please hatch Wiggly!

Edit 3: Nope, I just saw it go! I'm going to go do something else for a few hours. Watched eggs don't hatch.

 

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First full pip! Not Wiggly. It's the one right in front of the livestream.

Edit: 2 Hours later, looks like we may be thinking about zipping. Little beak is popping out, full on hole in the shell now.

Edit 3: Pysche! We're resting. Big Wiggly hasn't moved in hours and the movements it has made were very, very weak in comparison to yesterday's work. I'm still very worried for it.

 

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No changes since last update. I can see the wee beak working on the external pip, it's still chewing/absorbing. Big Wiggly hasn't moved for 5 hours now.

Edit: It is now, officially, day 21.

 

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Big Wiggly pipped overnight, on the bottom of it's egg, outside of it's air cell. It wasn't entirely through the membrane, so I made a 2mm slit in the membrane, moistened with just a touch of oil, and put it back in the incubator. It peeped at me, and wiggles a bit now and then, so fingers crossed we'll get a good hatch. The original pipper now has a fingernail sized hole that it happily sticks it's beak out of, but no zip. And we've got another pip on one of the legbar eggs.

 

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Well, we now have 5 eggs pipped. 2 of the eggs that aren't pipped are moving, so that's good. One isn't pipped and I've never seen move.

Big Wiggly is still really dodgy. I can hear it bitching, and see it wiggling, but it seems to have moved away from the pip hole it made at first. As long it's peeping, it's got air, and I'll keep that other bit moist so it won't stick if it needs to pip somewhere else.

And my very first pipper who pipped around noon yesterday now has made itself a hole the size of my fingernail, but just isn't zipping. It's not crying or anything, it's beak is in the hole. I'll give it until tonight and then assist. With a hole that big, and for so long, I'm worried about shrinkwrapping.

 

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If anyone who really knows what they're doing could check into the livestream and look at the baby with the big hole and let me know if it's stuck I'd appreciate it. It seems to be making zipping motions, but doesn't seem able to move away from the hole.