4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[tadpole98]

Here's a link on mushy chick disease:

http://keep-hens-raise-chickens.com/health/yolk-sac-infection-mushy-chick-disease

Essentially it's an infected yolk sac with a poor prognosis.. also comes with a nasty smell. =(

that sounds like what he has =(

 

[tadpole98]

Quote: well he was active, then he passed out among the shells

 

[Brookhavens]

heres a pic of his belly, notice its down low
lemme get the pic of the bottom

A newborn chicks belly will look distended. You have to remember that they just finished absorbing all that yolk. As they use the yolk the stomach goes down to normal size. The bottom picture looks to be a little larger than normal but should close up in a matter of time. Put that baby back in the bator and let him rest from hatching. The blood you saw was more than likely the remainder of the umbilical cord or where it was attached.

 

[Daloorashens]

500 posts???/ I'm not even going to try looking through them all, lol!!

for my eggs!!! I set late on the 11th, so don't expect any action till tomorrow, but I guess I could be surprised, right??

 

[tadpole98]

Quote: okay, thank you!
ive never had a chick come out deformed or sick before so i had no idea

 

[tadpole98]

500 posts???/ I'm not even going to try looking through them all, lol!!

for my eggs!!! I set late on the 11th, so don't expect any action till tomorrow, but I guess I could be surprised, right??

theres always room for surprise!

 

[Brookhavens]

okay, thank you!
ive never had a chick come out deformed or sick before so i had no idea

Is there any pus or discharge coming from the "bellybutton"?

 

[cluck-cluck]

Good Morning everyone! Finished my chores enough to drop in I set 19 eggs, 3 made it to lockdown (but one didn't look active at that time, turned out a quitter) and had 2 hatch. One hatched upside down, and in hindsight, I should have just made sure it could breathe and left the shell in tact sans the little hole for breathing and let him do his thing. Fortunately, despite my interference, he's doing great. Here are my pictures:

This one suddenly zipped, and after taking this picture, I switched the camera over to video just in time to catch it throwing off the lid in a dramatic fashion and rolling right out of the shell! It was amazing!


He dragged a little blood around, but not much. Cute little bugger!


Then, the upsidedown pip that I had been messing with. Sinde the other one hatched, I waited a few more hours, but the membrane was getting dry, so I eventually removed it and took him out. He still had stuff in his belly, and he bled. It looked awful! But her turned out to be just fine. Lesson learned, leave 'em alone if everything else looks good (good looking membrane, could breathe, leave alone! LOL. I should not have peeled back the shell, and exposed the membrane causing the rest of the troubles!


Here they are drying off in the 'bator


Here they are in the brooder


And here they are again, sweet little peeping fluffy butts

 

[tadpole98]

they all rushed out all excited and quickly started shoving their way back in, except for Nikki lol

 

[tadpole98]

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