HELP!!!! My chick has something wierd coming out of it's bottom.

[love2grinchicke]

chick is lying on the ground, very weak looking. I dabble it's beak in sugar water every few minutes. this is so sad.

 

[Draga Devia]

chick is lying on the ground, very weak looking. I dabble it's beak in sugar water every few minutes. this is so sad.

Did he drink it?
If he is not even a day old I think its normal..
my duckling stayed on the ground for 2 full days untill it started to move more..
How is the 'yolk' now? It should get black and dry...

 

[love2grinchicke]

it struggles when I pick it up, but will open it's beak when I lift it out of the sugar water. It is shivering now. Should I just put it down, or does it still have a chance?

 

[Draga Devia]

it struggles when I pick it up, but will open it's beak when I lift it out of the sugar water. It is shivering now. Should I just put it down, or does it still have a chance?

I would not give up yet... just keep it warm and see what happens!
If he dies at least you gave it a chance

 

[love2grinchicke]

I am putting it's beak in sugar water constantly, and whenever that happens it perks up.

 

[love2grinchicke]

the chick just died. I think at first it was just yolk, but by the end it was intestines.

 

[Draga Devia]

the chick just died. I think at first it was just yolk, but by the end it was intestines.

Oh if it was intestines then its better it died...
do you have a picture of it?

 

[boyswithchicks]

So sorry to hear that your chick died. I get one of these situations at least once every season and I am not sure what causes it given that I hatch a few hundred chicks and the others tend to hatch very well. In every case the chicks have been small and weak so it could be a developmental thing. Like the rest of us, we put this sort of thing down to experience and learn from it.

 

[love2grinchicke]

I did not take a picture. At the time my only thought was to get it out of the box as soon as possible. It convulsed several times, and when I checked on it again it was dead. Very sad, but I know it was better that way, because it really was not great at all.

 

[Draga Devia]