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post #1 of 7
4/27/12 at 4:09pm
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I am hatching!  One of the first has a red umbilical cord that has a chunk the size of a dried pea at the end.  Is this his reproductive parts?  He is bright and active climbing all over the eggs dragging it along. Bright eyed. He is a goer. Do I need to cull or keep and see if it reproduces?  I am not as sentimental as most on this forum.  I was raised on a ranch. I really don't want to raise a chicken that cannot reproduce.  I like eggs and baby chicks, chickens who do their thing. However I don't want to cull needlessly.

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post #2 of 7
4/27/12 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by jeancordelia View Post

I am hatching!  One of the first has a red umbilical cord that has a chunk the size of a dried pea at the end.  Is this his reproductive parts?  He is bright and active climbing all over the eggs dragging it along. Bright eyed. He is a goer. Do I need to cull or keep and see if it reproduces?  I am not as sentimental as most on this forum.  I was raised on a ranch. I really don't want to raise a chicken that cannot reproduce.  I like eggs and baby chicks, chickens who do their thing. However I don't want to cull needlessly.

Thanks much

I'm pretty sure this happens a lot and he is fine.just watch . There is some posts on here somewhere about this.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VKLTUgfkcBs
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post #3 of 7
4/27/12 at 5:20pm
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Thanks

He is still doing fine,  I think he is a rooster, he wants to sit up on the eggs.
 

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post #4 of 7
4/27/12 at 5:45pm

From what I have read it might be it didn't absorb all of the yolk. Just watch and it may fall off in a few hours.

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post #5 of 7
4/27/12 at 6:37pm
I had one sort of like that and after a day the cord looked dry so I cut it in the middle. All is fine.
Hens: 16 Leghorns or California Whites, 5 Trader Joe's Leghorns, 14 Red Stars or Gold Stars, 10 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Rhodes Island Reds, 4 Silver Laced Wyandotes, 4 Ameraucana, 7 Barred Rock, 1 Silver Laced Wyandote X Barred Rock, 1 Leghorn X Barred Rock. = 64 Hens - chicks 23 hatched on 3/15
Roosters: 1 Trader Joe's Leghorn Rooster, 1 Leghorn X Barred Rock Rooster
Nursing Home hatch-a-long
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Hens: 16 Leghorns or California Whites, 5 Trader Joe's Leghorns, 14 Red Stars or Gold Stars, 10 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Rhodes Island Reds, 4 Silver Laced Wyandotes, 4 Ameraucana, 7 Barred Rock, 1 Silver Laced Wyandote X Barred Rock, 1 Leghorn X Barred Rock. = 64 Hens - chicks 23 hatched on 3/15
Roosters: 1 Trader Joe's Leghorn Rooster, 1 Leghorn X Barred Rock Rooster
Nursing Home hatch-a-long
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post #6 of 7
4/27/12 at 7:14pm
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It is drying up and he is still very fine,  I think it will be fine, sorry, just nervous

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post #7 of 7
4/28/12 at 7:43am

I had a chick hatch that a couple days after hatch still hadn't lost his umbilical cord. Since it was dry and the other chicks were pecking on it, I cut it a bit.

 

This is what it looked prior to cutting:

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I just cut the cord part, and not too close to his body, just enough to stop him from dragging all the hatching gunk.

 

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