Need help with "shrink wrap" & late hatch chick

[newchickenfamily]

I'm not sure if I'm out of the woods with this pitiful little banty chick. The water has all dried off of it, and now it's left with a thin coating of stiff egg white! It's not able to "fluff up" like the others. I have it in the 'bator and am not sure what else to do for the poor little thing! Any ideas about the stiff coating and how to get it off?

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Here is my amazing baby that I helped out after it was in it's shell for FOUR days after the hatch date. FOUR! It lived that long so I had no choice but the help it out. It was still the last morning and I went to throw it out and it chirped at me. It was all dried up and could not move anymore. What I did was get a really wet paper towel not dripping but really wet. Then I let that sit on the membrane until is softened enough for me to work with it. I took it out of the bator in a nice hot room and worked slowly with a tweezers pulling a little bit at a time off very slowly...so you don't make it bleed. almost an hour later I had me a little blue boy orp! He had splay legs but I fixed that and he is a spit fire today. About 9 weeks old and doing super

Here he is: He is the first one I ever attempted to help out but I could not resist. If the little thing was strong enough to live that long in it's shell it deserved to live

Usually I do let nature take it course though.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Did you try putting warm water on that area? Maybe soaking it a bit would help? I had a chick that just did not look like the others either and I think that may have been the same prob yours is having. Mine lived for a week and it seemed fine but all of a sudden one day it was jut gone. No warning at all. I hope you can figure out how to get that off of it. Maybe someone will have a better idea than soaking it. If I was desperate i would even try olive oil.