Ok so Egg B is even more confusing now:
Since it was 23 1/2 hrs since I heard the first peep, I decided to external pip it.
The shell was really thick, harder to get through than ones I assisted last hatch.
I piped on the line I had drawn for day 10 aircell, a little above the day 17 air cell line so I could avoid the poss. of piping too low, into veins.
What I found is the entire aircell area was empty, w/ the membrane white, dry & all the egg shell easy to pull off from it , not glued or sticky, just dry.
The chick was peeping, but as far as I can tell, it appears to still be entirely inside the inner membrane, like there is air down in there and it never internally pipped into the aircell.
That inner seperating membrane which should have liquid in it also is rather dry, except that it still has some obvious veins w/ blood so the chick is NOT ready to hatch b/c the blood isn't all absorbed. But my DH said it looks like the butt end of the chick at the air cell (which I was kind thinking too) so possibly it did not turn, but somehow it is very dry and it didn't drown ??
But squinting it actually looked more to me like the beak is still under the wing, but not internally piped, as to do so it would hit a large vein that is right there in the membrane. yikes.
I have it in a hot moist papertown tent over the good sized opening I made in the air cell end. In theory it can be fine like that for 24 hrs or so, so I guess I'll wait and see what it does,
if it absorbs the blood in the vein I can see right in the center of the membrane over the air cell area...
If anyone has thoughts on this I'd love to hear esp. if you've seen this before. Thanks
