Slow/bloody zip, can I do anything?

[Hardboiled]

This is my first hatch and one pipped yesterday at 10 am. It didn't do much till 10pm, and as of 10 am this morning it is halfway zipped but there is blood on the beak and it's only progressed half an inch in the past two hours.

Can/ should I do anything or does he need to rest since he hit blood? Nobody else has pipped. Is he in danger? The humidity was 40ish throughout incubation, and 65 to 70 after lockdown. They're Olandsk Dwarf eggs, so they're small if it makes any difference.
Edit: Today is day 21.

 

[MadamContrary]

Just leave it, it is still absorbing the yolk and blood and veins should retract soon. Can you see it making yawning type motions?

 

[Ponypoor]

Birthing can be messy business; I was surprised at how messy the inside of the chicks eggs where with my first hatching. But the wee ones were all good!

Best advise ever on this site is to 'sit on your hands and do nothing'.... hard to do but it's best to let them get on with it themselves.

 

[Hardboiled]

I haven't seen anything that looks like a yawn but I've seen little nibbling motions and he's cheeping now and then. He's trying to push the egg apart but it's not zipped enough. I hope others still pip, maybe he was a little early since there's still blood. I really want to turn the egg so he can keep zipping bc it seems like he can't get through the piece of egg on the floor of the incubator. I'm sitting on my hands!

 

[Hardboiled]

Ha PonyPoor I was typing out "sitting on my hands" at the same time you posted! This is way more worrying than I hoped for.

 

[MadamContrary]

I haven't seen anything that looks like a yawn but I've seen little nibbling motions and he's cheeping now and then. He's trying to push the egg apart but it's not zipped enough. I hope others still pip, maybe he was a little early since there's still blood. I really want to turn the egg so he can keep zipping bc it seems like he can't get through the piece of egg on the floor of the incubator. I'm sitting on my hands!

Don't worry, it just zipped a bit low on the shell. It's just resting and getting ready. I never intervene until after 48 hours.

 

[Hardboiled]

I was worried about how low his pip was. The eggs were shipped from west coast to east coast and several were scrambled and all had wonky air cells. I hope he comes out ok and has at least one buddy.

 

[Kiki]

Once a chick starts zipping it usually means it's ready to come out.

It is possible it's stuck.
I wouldn't help it now but I'd make sure it isn't getting stuck/glued to the shell.

 

[Lizzy733]

The humidity seems a bit low for a hatch -could it have possibly gotten stuck to the shell? If it weren't for the timeframe you've mentioned, I wouldn't think anything was wrong from the pic.

I would be reluctant to open the incubator if you don't have a reliable way to get the humidity back up quickly.

If there are no other external pips, it shouldn't really impact the others to quickly pop it open and grab that egg out.

You said he's actively trying to zip, but no longer turning, right? Keep an eye on his activity and get some styptic powder and q-tps ready just in case. Google what you can use around the house if you don't have any - there are lots of substitutes.

If you do intervene and find the baby bleeding from the navel, coat it heavily with the powder and that should stop it bleeding right away.


Had to help one in our latest hatch - pipped with albumen leaking from the pip hole and could not zip at all due to having a foot over her head. Lost maybe a teaspoon of blood right at the end of the assist cause I was a bit slow in applying the powder, but no ill consequences. She's a very energetic 1 week old brooder baby at the moment.


So unless the blood is pooling under them, it shouldn't be a worry.

 

[Hardboiled]

He made no further progress, so I took the egg out wrapped in wet paper towel. He was completely stuck. I assisted and he's out but I had to clean muck/cement off his down. I feel awful. He's laying in the incubator chirping bit hasn't moved.