Pip hatch assist advice please

[lolafanau]

So one of my eggs when candles at 7 days showed what looked like a super faint crack however it never oozed or showed on the surface, only when candling.
Today was the beginning of hatch day. We have one chick out and majority of the others are very vocal, internally pipped etc.
"Crack" egg has pipped at the wrong end where the crack is but since hasnt made any further effort. Been about 4-5 hours since I noticed it.
Membrane looks okay but I've not opened incubator to have a closer look yet as wanted some advice first.
Its definitely not internally pipped the air cell.
Is this one possibly going to need assisting?
Is it possible it was pressure that "pipped" the crack area and it might actually be in the right position to pip the air cell?
I'm pro assist when necessary but dont want to do anything early due to risks.
Tia x

 

[Uff Da]

I will assist eggs that are malpositioned to hatch, but often you won't need to.

A regular pip into the air cell needs at least 24 hours before you consider assisting, and malpositions need even longer. This is because a chick needs to rest and absorb the yolk and blood supply after it pips. If you interfere too early, the chick can bleed to death or be born with a yolk sack hanging from its body. A chick can take 24 hours between internal pip to external pip, and another 24 hours from pip to zip. Since a malpositioned chick does its internal and external pip at the same time, you need to give it the combined times of internal pip to external pip, and external pip to zip.

So if it hasn't made any progress in at least 24 hours, you can check to see if it needs help, but many times if you leave it 48 hours it will hatch on its own.

Before you consider helping, be sure to read this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

 

[lolafanau]

I will assist eggs that are malpositioned to hatch, but often you won't need to.

A regular pip into the air cell needs at least 24 hours before you consider assisting, and malpositions need even longer. This is because a chick needs to rest and absorb the yolk and blood supply after it pips. If you interfere too early, the chick can bleed to death or be born with a yolk sack hanging from its body. A chick can take 24 hours between internal pip to external pip, and another 24 hours from pip to zip. Since a malpositioned chick does its internal and external pip at the same time, you need to give it the combined times of internal pip to external pip, and external pip to zip.

So if it hasn't made any progress in at least 24 hours, you can check to see if it needs help, but many times if you leave it 48 hours it will hatch on its own.

Before you consider helping, be sure to read this: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/

Thank you, I'll try and stop panicking!
It's one of only 3 ayam eggs I have in there so extra keen for it to do well as we already lost one earlier and another seemed underdeveloped at day 18.

I think what I'm not entirely sure is due to the pre existing crack whether it has actually pipped in the wrong place or if it wriggling around has caused the crack to open up and it could still pip in air cell if you know what I mean?