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You want to wait till it's dried and fluffed out. It's okay if it's pushing eggs around, they do that naturally.

If it's chick feed its fine. If you mean egg layer feed, you might be better off just waiting. A chick can survive off it's yolk that it absorbed for 24-48 hours. It should be fine until you can get proper feed in the morning

A red blob is fine, that should be the left over of the umbilicus.

Send a pick of the blood

Yes, dampen a q-tip and use it to soften the areas that are dried to the shell

You can work the egg shell of right now. It's going to need your intervention to get the shell off

This works just as well! Just be sure the water your using on the q-tip is warm, just in case you touch skin to prevent chilling the chick

But also be careful not to apply too much as this can prevent the chick from drying out.

Congrats on the hatch! I've had this issue a couple of times, if you have coconut oil, Neosporin, triple Antibiotic, etc, you can gently apply that to the areas that the feathers are dried and stuck to soften the membrane and allow the feathers to gently detach