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Shannon, don't feel bad about helping, I think we have all gotten anxious and helped with not always good results.
The chick that you could heard peeping inside should have pipped externally the next day, and finished its hatch within about 12 hours. I've had it happen to me where they never pipped the shell externally but started the process inside (can be seen through a good candle). I have chicks now that I can hear peeping inside the shell when I turned eggs this evening. They should be have accomplished an external pip by morning. Most of the time, as sad as it can be, if they don't pip externally, I don't help them. I've learned that those chicks, if you do manage to get them out usually don't thrive, and in the long run, it's an older chick or youngster that gives you heart ache after you've become a bit attached to them.
Serama eggs typically will hatch on day 19, some as early as day 17. I don't know why they are on a shorter cycle, but come day 21, if a serama egg for me hasn't hatched and there's been no power failures or setbacks during incubation, I always toss the egg because it won't hatch. When power failures happen up to 12 hours, I then let me eggs go an extra 2 days but otherwise, serama eggs on day 21 are discarded here.
Have you held one of your eggs getting ready to pip up to your ear yet and heard the chick move around in the shell? I put the egg right on my ear and tap gently on it a few times and it sounds like muffled paper crumpling. I think that's the coolest, along with their little chirps.
