When to intervene? Stuck chick

[sambla713]

Hi! I am trying to hatch geese. One is doing great and is chirping and trying to get out, and the other seems a bit stuck. The humidity got too low last night when it started hatching, I increased it this morning as soon as I realized to 70%, but I’m worried its bill is stuck. It moved a little bit earlier and got some of its shell off, but hasn’t moved at all since.
Edit for context: this is all at my work, so I am unable to check them at night or in the evenings unless I drive back

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

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[Susan Skylark]

You could try chipping away at the shell a bit and stop if you hit blood, return to incubator and try again in an hour. If the bill doesn’t move occasionally he may be dead. Usually when they’ve progressed this far and die it is a weak or deformed chick or the membranes cover the nostrils and they suffocate, even if it is alive, some are so weak they just fade away and die in shell even with assistance, sorry!

 

[sambla713]

You could try chipping away at the shell a bit and stop if you hit blood, return to incubator and try again in an hour. If the bill doesn’t move occasionally he may be dead. Usually when they’ve progressed this far and die it is a weak or deformed chick or the membranes cover the nostrils and they suffocate, even if it is alive, some are so weak they just fade away and die in shell even with assistance, sorry!

I’ll try chipping a bit tomorrow morning! I did read that the two parent geese can cause deformed goslings, so that would make sense if this one just wasn’t strong enough to survive. But I hope I did everything I could for it