A NN chic just hatched and has this wrapped around a leg ?!?!

[OwlLover]

Yay!!!

Sorry for stupid question, but what's a NN?

 

[bhazell123]

Lol it's cool NN is short for naked neck lol

 

[Ksane]

It looked like the umbilical cord to me. I bet he'll be fine!
(An NN is a Naked Neck).

 

[Uniontown Poultry]

I am thinking umbilical cord as well. If it was intestines, I would think it would grow into the foot/leg a little since the intestines would be growing for a long part of the chicken's development in the egg. Also, intestines are not usually just dumped in the abdominal cavity like an overturned bag of yarn to swing about - they are encased within a membrane. Also, I think the digestive tract forms before the limbs are completed... but the yolk sac shares the space inside the egg with the completed limbs as the chick absorbs it through the umbilicus and into the navel. I'm thinking horses here, not zebras.

If you haven't already, you may want to cut the cord. If it's digestive tissue, the chick will probably die, but most likely it would have died anyway. If it's umbilical, you can cut it close to the navel as you can, treat the area with a good antibiotic a few times a day (my favorite for chick-navel-issues is powdered sulfur aka flowers of sulfur b/c it is drying, but even neosporn will do). If you don't cut it, the cord might just dry up and fall away, but make sure you put some antibiotic of some kind on the navel, since it's basically just an open wound that goes straight to the major organs.

So glad you freed his foot, and wishing all the best. Keep us posted.

 

[AZBootsie]

OMG You did it!!! Great Job!! How is his little foot??

With the skin on that bubble being so thin, hard to say if it is bowel or yolk sac?? Doesn't really look like either??

After looking at his pic for so long, I am growing really fond of the little guy. Let us know how he does. He is looking good now.

 

[bhazell123]

Well hes now fluffed and dried but waiting on the next chic to dry before I move them both . But i really do believe it was something important because as soon as I freed his foot it kinda all went back into the whole ( there was a whole in the skin where it was looped over but it is looking great and he is moving and looking really cuten but I think it could of been because I think he was a double holler but the other didt form ) because it was a HUGE egg that was shipped here with 15 other which ten actually grew . But I will post more pics of him tomorrow

 

[bhazell123]

Ok couldt wait heres some pic of him and his buddy

 

[AZBootsie]

Adorable!!!
He looks great. You did a fantastic job!!

 

[navychick]

What a lucky little chick. Hope all goes well.

 

[KandiandJerry]

He is soooo cute.....and good job......we wish him the best.....