3 day old chick with prolapsed umbilicus/hernia?

[as110]

This chick hatched on Friday morning so technically it is 3.5 days old.
This morning I checked and his butt was clean, no pasty butt. He looked normal and feeling sleepy since he hatched.

I just got home in the evening, the first thing I did was checked and now the umbilical area is out. Chicken looks uncomfortable and peeping a little louder than before. I don’t think he is eating. Just standing and keeps falling asleep.

Is there anything I can do?
I saw newly hatched chicks with unabsorbed yolk sack and hernia but this chick was fine when he hatched. This issue is new.

The second picture shows the chloaca is clear.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

This chick hatched on Friday morning so technically it is 3.5 days old.
This morning I checked and his butt was clean, no pasty butt. He looked normal and feeling sleepy since he hatched.

I just got home in the evening, the first thing I did was checked and now the umbilical area is out. Chicken looks uncomfortable and peeping a little louder than before. I don’t think he is eating. Just standing and keeps falling asleep.

Is there anything I can do?
I saw newly hatched chicks with unabsorbed yolk sack and hernia but this chick was fine when he hatched. This issue is new.

The second picture shows the chloaca is clear.

I'm sorry about the chick.
Sadly, this is not a good sign, especially if she's 3.5 days old and this is a new development. I'm afraid she may not make it. The yellow ooze, is there a bad odor?

You can try cleaning with well chlorhexidine and keeping the tissue moist with bacitracin or neosporin to see if it will draw back inside, but to me, if she doesn't have infection now, then likely she will develop one since this does lead back into the abdominal cavity.

It's a hard call on your part as what to do. No one can tell you what to do. That said, if she were mine I'd cull her. I don't say this lightly at all, culling a chick is a difficult thing to do. Give yourself a bit of time and think it over - if you wish to try and treat, I'll help you the best I can.

If you decide to let her go and have never had to put a tiny one down, then I suggest this method. It may seem a bit brutal, but I've found it to be the quickest way, not easy on the heart, but quick for the little one. This article walks you through it, tastefully.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...-for-squeamish-people-slightly-graphic.74734/

 

[as110]

That yellow stuff is yolk and it has dried on the feathers so now it’s rock hard. There is no smell and otherwise it is dry.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

That yellow stuff is yolk and it has dried on the feathers so now it’s rock hard. There is no smell and otherwise it is dry.

Is the tissue that's protruding dry too? If it is, then you will want to apply bacitracin or neosporin (triple antibiotic ointment) on the tissue until you decide which way to go.

Yolk is one of the best mediums for bacterial growth, so it's concerning that all that is yolk, so that means there was a rupture somehow or the chick is developing Mushy Chick (Omphalitis).

 

[BarnyardChaos]

I don't see pictures. Can you try posting them again?
Are the other chicks pecking at him? You may need to separate him.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I don't see pictures. Can you try posting them again?
Are the other chicks pecking at him? You may need to separate him.

This other thread.
I have asked these be combined because of double posting.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/3-day-old-chick-with-prolapsed-umbilicus-hernia.1566454/

 

[as110]

Is the tissue that's protruding dry too? If it is, then you will want to apply bacitracin or neosporin (triple antibiotic ointment) on the tissue until you decide which way to go.

Yolk is one of the best mediums for bacterial growth, so it's concerning that all that is yolk, so that means there was a rupture somehow or the chick is developing Mushy Chick (Omphalitis).

This chick was trampled by the hen and almost died at 8 hours old. It is I guess possible that it got injured then. It happened on Friday. I had to resuscitate him.

The tissue is not hard. Just large enough to think that I could not push it back. I don’t have bactricin only polysporin but I know that shouldn’t be used.

 

[as110]

This other thread.
I have asked these be combined because of double posting.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/3-day-old-chick-with-prolapsed-umbilicus-hernia.1566454/

I edited the title because of a typo. I didn’t know it got posted twice. Sorry.

 

[as110]

I have chlorhexidine, colloidal silver and kopper care :0(

 

[as110]

It has been cleaned. I believe this is the yolk sack. I can only hope that it will get absorbed again. I don’t know what that protruding long thing is. It is hard and it would not soften with the liquid on it.

I separated the chickens but they are still in the brooder so I can keep the temperature stable where it needs to be.