Not the vent. Black stuff is hard and attached to what are likely intestines. It’s not poop.
The more I research, the more likely this is an intestine with necrosis.
I don’t think it’ll make it.
Thank you all for your help.
This is our first batch. We're still working on best practices to help chicks.
We want to help a baby chick (~2 days old) that was born very small compared to the other 5 and with something attached to its vent (maybe?) area.
This chick is active, but really small. After it hatched, it ran...