Can I remove hatched chick from incubator

[chickens really]

But wouldn’t removing them or shaking them cause them to have more problems or die?

What? No definitely not. Many assist in hatching too. That's another situation though. No you can Candle eggs if needed or just leave them? All baby birds get into position to hatch and then breach the inner membrane into the air cell and then pip externally out the shell to get more oxygen. They rest many times between each process of hatching.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If you must decide what side of the egg needs to be up, set it on a flat surface and let it roll, the air cell will be on top.

I recommend not opening an incubator during hatching for any reason. It just isn't worth it. We have high humidity but, depending on which incubator I use, I've had lots of shrink wrapped chicks from doing so. Most of my shrink wrapped chicks aren't still alive a month later.
Dealing with related issues just isn't worth the time.

 

[MROO]

I would leave it in for a few hours and see if it gets the rest to start to hatch

If you really need to take the chick out right away, try to set up your brooder within "peeping distance." Hearing lonesome babies calling often encourages the pippers to get going!

 

[ChickenGirl555]

Ok I came home and found this one to have a pip, but it’s so much toward the side and isn’t moving (the first chick kept poking its beak out after the pip) that I’m afraid it might’ve pipped incorrectly, but as I’m saying this I’m thinking about how they have to internally pip first, so is the chick just taking a break? Wouldn’t they have drowned during the internal pip before the external pip?

 

[aart]

Ok I came home and found this one to have a pip, but it’s so much toward the side and isn’t moving (the first chick kept poking its beak out after the pip) that I’m afraid it might’ve pipped incorrectly, but as I’m saying this I’m thinking about how they have to internally pip first, so is the chick just taking a break?

Side pip(not thru air cell) is actually an 'external pip' so will take longer to hatch.
Can you see it's beak moving/breathing at all?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm sorry but I don't understand the consternation over all this. They hatch or they don't.
Don't open the incubator or you'll add to the problems. Just wait till they are done.
I have chicks hatching now. They were due 15 minutes ago. 2 are out. The one that pipped first this morning is half zipped. There is only one other pipped and no action in the other 11. I'm not going to look at them again till late tonight.

 

[ChickenGirl555]

Side pip(not thru air cell) is actually an 'external pip' so will take longer to hatch.
Can you see it's beak moving/breathing at all?

No, but the whole egg shook a little. I haven’t seen the pipped hole change since 4pm.

EDIT TO ADD: The Buff Orpington eggs has been shaking and I just heard a click that was the same as the click we heard when the first chick hatched...but I haven’t found anything yet.

 

[ChickenGirl555]

Update: The Buff Orpington egg hatched around 8am and one of the Barred Rock eggs hatched around 2am this morning. But I'm worried because the one that has been pipped for a while still hasn't progressed besides another chick pulling off a piece of shell for it.

I'm trying to be patient but I keep feeling like I need to do an assisted hatch. Is it normal for eggs to take THIS LONG? The other three had all pipped sometime during an afternoon or evening, and been hatched in the morning. The final unhatched BR egg has not changed or chirped or wiggled for so long, that I think it's dead or needs help. Is it common or possible to just naturally take this long? Should I do something?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Update: The Buff Orpington egg hatched around 8am and one of the Barred Rock eggs hatched around 2am this morning. But I'm worried because the one that has been pipped for a while still hasn't progressed besides another chick pulling off a piece of shell for it.

I'm trying to be patient but I keep feeling like I need to do an assisted hatch. Is it normal for eggs to take THIS LONG? The other three had all pipped sometime during an afternoon or evening, and been hatched in the morning. The final unhatched BR egg has not changed or chirped or wiggled for so long, that I think it's dead or needs help. Is it common or possible to just naturally take this long? Should I do something?

It can be normal, depending on many conditions ranging from egg storage time and conditions, size of eggs, breeder nutrition, turning, temperature, humidity, etc..
I had 13 eggs due to hatch 45 hours ago. 2 hatched on time, the rest were malingerers. 7 chicks out now and two more still hatching.
I know some of my problems were egg storage time, insufficient turning during storage, mixing large and small eggs, among other things.
The first to pip and zip didn't make it out till this morning. I thought it was dead because it didn't move when I tapped on the incubator which caused all the others to start hollering. I went back a couple hours later and I couldn't tell which one it was because he was running with the others.
His issue could have been breeder nutrition because I hadn't spiked that early enough.
Egg weight was also a gram or two low at the end that tells me the humidity was likely low during incubation.

 

[ChickenGirl555]

When one of the eggs hatched they got a bunch of goop and gunk on the Barred Rock egg I was worried about, and I haven't seen any movement or change for days, so we decided to take it out and stop the incubation, since the rest have all hatched (besides the infertile one we took out earlier).

So now we have 3 healthy-looking chicks that I have named Mercury, Quill, and Gina. Two are Barred Rock mixes and Quill is a Buff Orpington and Golden Laced Polish mix.

Thanks for all the help!