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The bruising is suspect in my opinion. I can’t tell from your picture, is there space in the air cell? I might go ahead and make a safety hole… just to be safe.

I would recommend not candling. Taking them out and potentially turning the eggs can confuse them. It probably internally pipped and tried to externally pip. Can you get a pic of candling? If you look at the pointy end can you see anything in there? If the duckling is struggling I would make a...

Hooray! Yes you should see a shadow of their beak in the air cell. Where you will see the shadow depends on where they pip. Make sure not to candle them too often durning lockdown, especially don’t candle them after they have externally pipped, this could cause shrink wrapping. No, I would stop...

Sounds like they’re both close to pipping. If the whole egg is dark, besides the air cell of course, I would expect it to internally pip very soon. The other should also pip soon. Since you mentioned earlier that you have a homemade incubator they might be being slow to pip because of...

Did you decide to move them into lockdown? I’ve never waited until my chicks have internally pipped to move to lockdown. I always do it at the normal time. If you fix the humidity fast enough it should be fine, especially if they haven’t externally pipped. It’s best to leave chicks to...