Just fixed it. Another baby JUST pipped, and so I was tentatively tugging off what I could of the bad egg on top (you can see the insides of it in the pics - there was a baby growing inside at first 
)... Well, while tugging, another bad egg started coming off. Then... I saw that baby number 3 had started to pip INTO the bad egg on top of it! Suddenly tugging off bad eggs had a whole new importance...
Long story short, after lots of careful tugging, the eggs separated enough to give the bottom baby enough room to pip into clear air rather than an old dead egg.
In the morning I'm expecting another baby to have pipped - another egg has some slit marks starting to show, so maybe more pics in the morning!
Baby 2, in the first pipping hole that made me decide to try and tug off some dead egg so that it could get in and out of its own egg easier...
but of course, after the tugging, it decided the other hole it had made was better. You can see the insides of the dead egg I broke off above it.
And the miracle baby, which you can see surrounded by the dead eggs.
Tah dah! Thanks for looking, and thanks for the few suggestions I got for my earlier post. As it turns out, the eggs pull apart relatively easily when hatching time is upon them.
~jenny
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