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Thanks, me too. But maybe it was best if he was doomed to have lifelong health issues. I really appreciate all of the responses. Sometimes it helps just to know that I'm not the only one who doesn't know what's going on. LOL

That may be it. That is very similar to what he looked like when he first hatched. Then a few hours later he had a large sac (about the size of a bantam egg) protruding. I believe he tore the sac and that's when I started to see bright red blood and the sac deflated. I wish I had gotten...

I did receive some good responses in the incubating eggs section but for some reason the topic has been closed and I cannot respond to them. I don't believe it was the yolk sac, I believe it was the intestines protruding for some reason. The chick was near death this morning. Thanks to...

Thanks a bunch! I've looked through my books and can't find anything. I guess I will just have to wait and see what happen tomorrow. I'm not real good with "waiting".

Is it possible that the yolk sac is absorbed while in the egg and then discharged after hatching? It seems to be shrinking, and now I'm wondering if it's possible for it to just be the yolk sac. I've had chicks with unabsorbed yolk sacs when hatched before but nothing like this. And it wasn't...

No, it's not the yolk sac. This "sac" wasn't there when he first hatched, it appeared a couple of hours later. I've never seen anything like this before. I'll post in the Emergency section, thanks for the advice.

I've been hatching and raising chickens for several years but I've never encountered this problem. I have one Delaware chick that hatched today with what looked like a hernia on it's bottom. A few hours later, the chick had a sac that had come out of that "hernia" spot. Now the sac has...