Me again - Day 22 approaching - no obvious internal pip but chick is alive

[TempletonPeck]

Hello (again)
Chicken egg - hopefully a beautiful blue Orpington.
Day 22 starts at 4.30 UK time. I am new to incubating but my concerns also spring from this being the only surviving egg of a batch of shipped eggs that I started incubating without letting the sacs settle.
Could you please look at my latest photos? The red pen is where shadows were 4 days ago. Air sac is increasing but there is no sign of internal pipping (I don’t think) and no cheeping. I put in a safety hole yesterday so I’m also worried about shrink wrapping now, on top of the chick being malpositioned. In my optimistic moments, I think the triangular shadow looks like a beak - but if it is, there’s no cheeping. Because, I tell myself, all the life is being squeezed out of her as she gets shrink-wrapped.
Is it time to open up the shell over the air sac to try and locate the beak? I have coconut oil, tweezers, paper towels, all as per the “Assisted Hatch” article.
Thank you for putting up with me. I have no hygrometer but I have increased humidity (steam from a little pot, thanks to the advice of another member!) and I have 3 buff Orpington eggs thriving in there.

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

Have you seen them move at all? My chicks usually hatch start hatching day 19 and finish up day 21. The suspense!

 

[Jodi_in_Colorado]

Hello (again)
Chicken egg - hopefully a beautiful blue Orpington.
Day 22 starts at 4.30 UK time. I am new to incubating but my concerns also spring from this being the only surviving egg of a batch of shipped eggs that I started incubating without letting the sacs settle.
Could you please look at my latest photos? The red pen is where shadows were 4 days ago. Air sac is increasing but there is no sign of internal pipping (I don’t think) and no cheeping. I put in a safety hole yesterday so I’m also worried about shrink wrapping now, on top of the chick being malpositioned. In my optimistic moments, I think the triangular shadow looks like a beak - but if it is, there’s no cheeping. Because, I tell myself, all the life is being squeezed out of her as she gets shrink-wrapped.
Is it time to open up the shell over the air sac to try and locate the beak? I have coconut oil, tweezers, paper towels, all as per the “Assisted Hatch” article.
Thank you for putting up with me. I have no hygrometer but I have increased humidity (steam from a little pot, thanks to the advice of another member!) and I have 3 buff Orpington eggs thriving in there.

I just had my first of 8 pip at day 23. I had given up on them.

 

[Yardmom]

At this point you would be looking for any signs of movement to determine if it is still alive.

 

[Weeg]

@MGG

 

[TempletonPeck]

Here she is! She’s all floppy and exhausted and chirpy now. Totally assisted hatch after no progress and a very thick membrane. I’m also going to post the image on a new thread, but looking at this photo, was she malpositioned all along?

 

[BelovedBirds]

Here she is! She’s all floppy and exhausted and chirpy now. Totally assisted hatch after no progress and a very thick membrane. I’m also going to post the image on a new thread, but looking at this photo, was she malpositioned all along?

is the yolk absorbed? Any chewing or yawning?

 

[TempletonPeck]

No yolk visible, but occasional chewing motions. She’s certainly got some energy from somewhere, so I think it’s absorbed. It’s been a 4 hour process and in that time I literally saw the membrane veins pale and disappear - it was incredible.
Her head is out and her bottom half is still in the shell (see photo). She’s lovely.

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

I just had my first of 8 pip at day 23. I had given up on them.

Wow that's pretty late what breed were they?

 

[Sc_chickengirl]

No yolk visible, but occasional chewing motions. She’s certainly got some energy from somewhere, so I think it’s absorbed. It’s been a 4 hour process and in that time I literally saw the membrane veins pale and disappear - it was incredible.
Her head is out and her bottom half is still in the shell (see photo). She’s lovely.

Yay!!