HELP! Chick is hatching but there is blood.

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Help! I have a chick hatching and there is just a big hole in it and there is also blood. Should i be worried? I am looking at the egg and the chicks beak is sticking out and it is chirping. There are no other pips. just a big hole. And blood like i said. WHat should i do?

Thanks
 
still leaving the incubator closed and let alone would still be my bet, just because you dont want to screw it up for all the others gettin ready to hatch
 
Ok thanks for the help. It has been hatching for about 39/40 hours now if my calculations are right. The whole in the egg got a tiny bit bigger but there is barely any progress. Any thing i could do?
 
It may have missed the air sac and pipped straight through the shell. That often results in blood.

Do not do anything. Chicks can take 24hours to go from pipped to hatch. They can take even longer if they skipped a step and didn't pip into the air sac. Usually they break into the air sac first and rest for about a day absorbing some yolk before they break the shell and then they finish absorbing the yolk and all the blood in the vessels across the membrane before they hatch. Some chicks do this quickly but some can take 48hrs from the time they start hatching (break the membrane which is normally not visible except those few that miss the air sac) until they get out of the egg. Hurrying them along will only cause them to lose all that blood they need to absorb and they will die. It will also risk drying out the membranes for the rest and they will die.
 

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