2 day old chick with crusty abdomen

[ShFms]

Hello! New to the group here, and was curious if anyone has some input. Mama hen hatched out 3 babies. Two are doing great! But the third has had a rough start. It's now 2 days old ( I think) and still has a crusty abdomen where it separated from the egg. It also had pasty butt, however that's been cleared up. Is the crusty abdomen normal or common? Chick looks wet in picture because pasty butt had just been cleaned up. There's no blood or fluids coming out.

 

[AGstudy]

I have had it on chicks before. I just clean it off with warm water and make sure to dry the feathers off. Until I cleaned it off the chicks, they seemed to get cold easier than their companions (couldn't fluff their feathers).

 

[ShFms]

Thank you for the reply. It's gone downhill really fast . It's abdomen is fluid like, it won't walk, among other symptoms. I don't think it's going to make it

 

[AGstudy]

Thank you for the reply. It's gone downhill really fast . It's abdomen is fluid like, it won't walk, among other symptoms. I don't think it's going to make it

Im so sorry, I think you are right...

I looked all through my chicken books for any help. It could be Omphalitis (Mushy chick disease). Description: Newly hatched chicks are wet, cold, don't eat and drink, droopy head.
Have a distendeed abdomen, unhealed swollen, wet, red, mushy or scabby naval. Unabsorbed yolk sac.
Death starts within 24hrs of hatch and peaks at 1 week. Caused by Ecoli, Strep or Staph bacteria infecting the yolk sac during incubation.

It probably won't help at this point but you could try giving the chick water with probiotics in it and applying povidone iodine to the wet area. My one book says to apply povidone iodine 2-3x per day to the naval area.