Our brooder has bits of decaying eggshell from the first hatch 4 days ago, and the new chick has a swollen belly and open navel. It has lots of energy, hatched in an hour, and is moving around a lot, we need to know if it is safe to open the incubator to briefly wipe the area with iodine to...
So this chick hatched about a couple hours ago so he is very young and still not quite fluffed out yet. I had opened up the incubator to fix the humidity leve and I noticed blood on his navel and blood on the nearby eggs, which makes me think that this may have been going on for a hour or so...