HELP PLEASE! in the middle of an assist hatch & my guide is unavailble now!

Storey's Guide says

for the last week, in a still air machine temperature of 103F.

The last three days of incubation the relative humidity should be increased to approximately 75 percent, or 92 to 94F on the wet-bulb thermometer.

You wrote the little was breathing - there is some kind of hole so that the duckling is getting enough air, yes? The Guide says ventilation demands increase at hatching time. So enough fresh air, is what I am reading.

There is contact information on this page - http://www.lwbarnhouse.com/method1.html
Please take a look.

Another hatching thread - in this one, the duckling was shrink wrapped from low humidity.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/891049/shrink-wrapped-duckling
 
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my duck (rouen/pekin cross) is on day 30 and stop all movement today even with lots of stimuli. a friend that raised ducks told me to put a breathing hole in the air cell...so i did. After much stimuli the duckling started to move....that was at 10am this morning. As the day progressed all signs of life ceased again....so I tried tapping the egg while candling it and the poor things body didn't move at all...so my friend told me to assist again at 6pm central time..he walked me up to this point (see the pic) and now he is unavailable and i'm all alone with this chick & don't know what to do next, i'm horrified!!! The duckling had a very little bit of liquid come from its mouth in the very beginning (like 1 bubble), but no liquid from its nose. He is breathing now. His yolk is still there and his veins are still red. There is another egg as well, but it seems to be doing ok far...moving and chirping periodically. PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME...
HES NOT READY!!! hole is way to big!!!
 

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