The fourth egg for this clutch has hatched. The little guy won't come out of the egg (must have sen my face), but he's alive in there.
I have developed a rather high level (level orange?) of concern for the remaining eggs. 2 of the remaining eggs have lost a lot of weight and look like partially deflated soccerballs. They seem to have lost all internal pressure. For one of these eggs this has been the case consistently for a week now, but over the weekend it became much "worse." This particular egg has been dimpling and undimpling for over a month now. The other egg went from having a slight dirty look on the side to the dirty look spreading upward on the egg and appearing wet. It is not wet to the touch, but it looks like it.
The other 2-3 eggs have also lost internal pressure but not noticeable unless I touch them.
I keep resisting the urge to cut open the first two as I had not predicted a hatching start until tomorrow. However, I have not seen this loss of pressure and form to this extent before. Most of my eggs seemed to go from high pressure to hatch, or dimple and pip within hours or a day at most.
I am mostly venting my anxiety here, but if anyone has comments I am open to hearing them.
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