HELP! Blood & hole in shell with hatching egg

dixietuffchicken

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I am a first time hatching mommy here....that will be obvious when I tell you what I did. I am incubating 12 eggs in a Lyons Transparent Hen, an antique.

Several of my eggs had started to pip. I noticed one egg was pipping face down and I thought he would not be able to get out being pinned against the floor of the incubator. I lifted the edge of the bator and turned him. When I turned him I felt a tug and realized he was stuck to the bottom of the bator and when I turned the egg there was blood coming from the hole that now existed in the shell. This is at the small end of the shell and I can see a little foot sticking out of the hole. Is there hope for this little guy? WHAT DO I DO? I am panicked.

I also have lifted the bator several times...once to help a chick that hatched and had fallen between the bator and the water pan. I am afraid of shrink wrapping them but wondering if I should do anything with this bleeding egg. Let me post a picture of it....
 

here it is
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Yeah it seems like it will make it once I had to help one hatch and it bleed a lot but made it. Good luck
 
Put a wet quip to the hole and the chick should wiggle if so that's good and don't worry I can't help but open. The bator all the time and so far I have had a 100percent hatch rate
 
well...she hatched completely this morning (actually I had to help her a little and then questioned myself because there was a lot of blood still inside there)...she was really still and quiet for a few hours but now is hopping around a bit inside the bator and I am hopeful :) She has opened her eyes and seems fairly lively.

Hatching chicks is NOT for the faint of heart!!
 

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