Please help! New to hatching! Day 27 and no pips!

[bluekii]

Born at 7:45am on the 25th April, 2019!!

 

[Absolutely Quackers]

Born at 7:45am on the 25th April, 2019!!

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What a beauty!! Sending all best wishes for your feathered family.

 

[bluekii]

I have an egg still alive in the incubator i have carefully picked away at the beak for it to be able to breathe and it is chirping but there are still some small blood veins should I help it out or wait? It is a very late egg!

 

[Absolutely Quackers]

Absolutely DON'T HELP - you've done the air hole, now hang on while he/she gets themselves sorted. They will be fine in there and need to absorb that extra nutrient from the blood. Any sign of blood means STOP. Good luck!

 

[bluekii]

Absolutely DON'T HELP - you've done the air hole, now hang on while he/she gets themselves sorted. They will be fine in there and need to absorb that extra nutrient from the blood. Any sign of blood means STOP. Good luck!

She's got a damp paper towel over the air sac end where I chipped away a lot of the egg to try find her beak, I also put coconut oil on the membrane. Temp is 37.4°C & humidity is as high as I can get it (I don't have anything to read it).
She keeps yelling/chirping at me SO LOUDLY. How long does it take for them to absorb? I'm scared she'll die from being in the egg for too long? There are still tiny red veins visible on the membrane.

 

[chickens really]

Just keep waiting..It will hatch when it's ready.

 

[bluekii]

Just keep waiting..It will hatch when it's ready.

OK but we waited for the other egg in the incubator to hatch and it actually died and I believe it could have been saved if we helped it to hatch. I know it's a long waiting game with hatching but I honestly think there's such a thing as waiting too long to help...

I know that I need to wait for the veins to recede to then go ahead and assist more with the hatch.

 

[chickens really]

You gave it air and the vessels are still blood filled. If it hasn't absorbed the yolk fully or the vessels are still blood filled it's not ready.

 

[bluekii]

You gave it air and the vessels are still blood filled. If it hasn't absorbed the yolk fully or the vessels are still blood filled it's not ready.

Must just be a very late egg then - two hatched two days ago and then one died this morning which was fully ready to leave the egg but never pipped or zipped.

 

[chickens really]

Must just be a very late egg then - two hatched two days ago and then one died this morning which was fully ready to leave the egg but never pipped or zipped.

Did it internally pip? I mean the dead one