Time to help hatching chick?

[Sivory]

No problem! That one is definitely internally pipped. If your humidity us around 70% so that it doesn't dry out, it'll be fine.

Thank you! The little one is in the egg, not pipped externally but chirping inside the egg

 

[Sivory]

Thank you! The little one is in the egg, not pipped externally but chirping inside the egg

@MGG the little one finally, after about 18 hrs externally pipped, I was so proud of her. She then started zipping and I was watching her through the incubator because I didn’t want to open it too much, when I left the house yesterday she was zipping ‘under’ the egg, or from my view it was under. I came back late yesterday afternoon and she was still going so I left her to it, I played some chick noises to encourage her. Then I got up at 2am to check on them and noticed that she hadn’t progressed, so I opened the incubator and she had died! I was so devastated, it looks like yolk had seeped out of the egg and glued it down, how is that possible? Is that something you’ve come across before? The humidity was 75%-78% and has been consistently the same, but she was like cement with something over her, it wasn’t the membrane. Are you able to shed some light? Another chick started hatching, I thought it was dead in the shell but amazingly started to pip! She hatched within 12 hrs of the first pip and is doing well