Incubating and discouraged

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How long from pip to zip typically? He’s chirping away in there, hopefully any other chickies get the memo lol
As the others said, it varies. Some hatches seem really quick, there's no visible/audible action going on, you come back an hour later and there's babies everywhere. Some are slow and take longer than a day. The best hatch I had I was away from the house at an obligation for a few hours and came back and almost all the viable eggs had hatched.
 
Oh man... the waiting is just too much lol I know I hate the waiting. I’m better at waiting now but I won’t be when my California valley eggs are on lockdown in 8 days I can promise you that... lol
 
Most of mine hatch day 18. Last hatch started day 17.5 and finished before day 19. They will probably hatch while you are asleep or at work. :) You can be patient, the little fluffers are worth the wait.
Yeah I gotta sleep, I’m sure the bugger will hatch as soon as I do lol. Still no changes, I can still see the beak moving in the pip hole though. We are at 11h now, I just had to find some fish tank tubing to stick in there and refill the water container.
 
So here’s my update:
I started reading some assisted help articles and opened up the air cell to see if she was ok.
There was hard glue like substance all over her head so she couldn’t move to zip. I got it all cleaned up with cotton swabs and coconut oil so she could move freely. I chipped a bit more egg shell away and she’s back in the incubator so she can push out when she’s ready. Which she seems to be working on atm.
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I’ve had a few that stick their beak out and stay like that for a long time and one eventually died so I have done the same thing if they remain like that for far too long now as I don’t want to lose them. If they unzip most of the way and can’t finish or just stop I will also help.

I know people will have different opinions on this but I personally can’t help it as I just can’t watch them die in there!

So this one is alive and waiting to push out?
 

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