Just call me paranoid or impatient

[fluffy9947]

Ok so today is day 21 for one out of 14 shipped eggs... I hadn’t seen movement so I candled yesterday. Internal pip was there. Air cell isn’t quite at the top of egg sort of on one side. No chirping that I have noticed. Egg is wiggling every once in a while.

I am just wondering at what point (no plans to do this anytime soon, but don’t want to loose this chick). Do I help or at lead make a saftey hole.. I know I still have time but how long does it normally take to externally pip after internally. It has been over 24 hours now...

Worried is all..

I would make a small chip in the shell, and get through the membrane. Sometimes the membrane gets hard and the chick can't get out. If the shell is wiggling there's something alive in there. Mother chickens also help their chicks to get out, and you can see them pecking at the shell to help the chick. In the past, I have cut the membrane with a pair of nail scissors and then the chick is freed. Yours, fluffy9947