Should I wait or assist?

[Caseyjane14]

Today is day 21 so my official hatching day. Yesterday 4/6 of my chicks hatched. Today one of my eggs which is shown in photo has been like this for quite a bit. Does it look like the chick is stuck? should I leave it alone? It looks to me it’s a bit crusty or dry and I’m wondering if he’s having trouble getting out. I see movement inside. I have one other egg that I can’t tell if it pipped or not, so I don’t want to open the incubator in hopes that egg will also make it. Rest of the chicks are fluffy and have been patiently waiting to come out, but I don’t want to open incubator unless necessary to help assist this chick

 

[MGG]

Today is day 21 so my official hatching day. Yesterday 4/6 of my chicks hatched. Today one of my eggs which is shown in photo has been like this for quite a bit. Does it look like the chick is stuck? should I leave it alone? It looks to me it’s a bit crusty or dry and I’m wondering if he’s having trouble getting out. I see movement inside. I have one other egg that I can’t tell if it pipped or not, so I don’t want to open the incubator in hopes that egg will also make it. Rest of the chicks are fluffy and have been patiently waiting to come out, but I don’t want to open incubator unless necessary to help assist this chick

I'd let it out. If there's any blood stop, but it looks ready to me.
Remove the hatched chicks when you open the incubator too. It doesn't hurt to open it for a few minutes here and there during hatching.

 

[Themellowyellows]

I have seen people gentle poke at the egg with a pen to make a zipper for it.

 

[Caseyjane14]

Thank you everyone , I physically did it myself.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Helped a quail the same way yesterday (3 other chicks out for 12 hours) this one just pipped and knocking shell off but membranes intact. First opened a little hole in the membrane so he could breathe then after several more hours and the membrane starting to dry out chipped away at wide end of shell, hit a little blood and chick still moving bill in chewing motion so still absorbing yolk, moistened up membrane and put back in incubator overnight, hatched this morning. Not positive he needed help but paranoid after a backwards chick was fully zipped but unable to hatch due to thick dry membrane. Always hard to know! Congrats!

 

[BackyardinWales]

Helped a quail the same way yesterday (3 other chicks out for 12 hours) this one just pipped and knocking shell off but membranes intact. First opened a little hole in the membrane so he could breathe then after several more hours and the membrane starting to dry out chipped away at wide end of shell, hit a little blood and chick still moving bill in chewing motion so still absorbing yolk, moistened up membrane and put back in incubator overnight, hatched this morning. Not positive he needed help but paranoid after a backwards chick was fully zipped but unable to hatch due to thick dry membrane. Always hard to know! Congrats!

I've noticed my little one looks like he's chewing something. Does this mean he's not quite ready?

 

[Yardmom]

I've noticed my little one looks like he's chewing something. Does this mean he's not quite ready?

Yes if a chewing type action is happening it is not ready to hatch.