Last one is being difficult

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This little guy pipped 2 days ago all its brothers and sisters have hatched and been removed last night the other 3 must have rolled it around and broke its shell off a good bit. Theres a small blood spot nothing spectacular. It is still breathing and moving I don't want to interfere unless its absolutely necessary. I'm keeping the humidity up to 75-80 to keep that membrane moist. Anything I can do other than just give it time?
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Is the membrane off of the beak so it can breathe? You don't need the humidity up that high, it's already mostly out of the egg. It can be very very hard to breathe in too much humidity.
 
Is the membrane off of the beak so it can breathe? You don't need the humidity up that high, it's already mostly out of the egg. It can be very very hard to breathe in too much humidity.
It was off. It had pipped but that little spot of membrane dried. I thought about making a beak hole i didn't wanna take it out and risk it shrinking more in a different area.
 
I kept my humidity high this hatch 75-80 during lockdown I usually keep it at 60-70 but my last hatch 12 outta 30 didn't hatch since I always dry incubate and do the same hatch humidity 65ish I wanted to try something different. This hatch so far has been one of my better hatches 23 hatched out of 27 eggs. I know there's other variables involved but wanted to try something different.
 
This little guy pipped 2 days ago all its brothers and sisters have hatched and been removed last night the other 3 must have rolled it around and broke its shell off a good bit. Theres a small blood spot nothing spectacular. It is still breathing and moving I don't want to interfere unless its absolutely necessary. I'm keeping the humidity up to 75-80 to keep that membrane moist. Anything I can do other than just give it time?View attachment 2578908
It was in a cool spot in the incubator I'm guessing.
Lower the humidity to 65-70%.
I agree with BirdsBeesTrees, make sure the membrane is off of his beak so he can breathe. Give him quite a bit more time. He doesn't look anywhere near ready yet.
 
I kept my humidity high this hatch 75-80 during lockdown I usually keep it at 60-70 but my last hatch 12 outta 30 didn't hatch since I always dry incubate and do the same hatch humidity 65ish I wanted to try something different. This hatch so far has been one of my better hatches 23 hatched out of 27 eggs. I know there's other variables involved but wanted to try something different.
Definitely lower it for now though. Right now you risk the baby drowning with that high of humidity. It's just too high. Drop it down to at least 70%.
 
Definitely lower it for now though. Right now you risk the baby drowning with that high of humidity. It's just too high. Drop it down to at least 70%.
Got the humidity down to 65 got it a breather hole. There was another chick in there I went ahead and took it out so this one wouldn't get rolled around in his condition
 
Checked on my late bloomer its still doin its thing while I had the bator open I took out the unmatched eggs to toss. I decided to candle these eggs and found one of my lavender eggs alive moving inside. I can't tell if its internally pipped it doesn't look like it is because the aircell is still pretty intact and looks like a regular aircell to me. I don't the chicks head moving between the inside membrane and outside one. I guess I'll let these 2 bake another day or 2 see if it makes it out.
 

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