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You absolutely cannot tell by candling if a chick is malformed. I've had several whose intestines were located outside the body, no way to survive, yet impossible to tell if that was the case before it was out of the egg. Most of them pipped on their own, and some hatched on their own, but those...

If it's that far past due date, what may be the case is the chick is malformed in some way, internally or externally, and should not hatch. Could be it grew too large for the egg, which can happen if it is too weak, positioned badly, yet keeps on growing. In those cases, again, best to let it go...