Any ideas -- burst abdomen on chick

Kim65

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May 29, 2009
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This was a splash Ameracauna about a week old. She appeared to be healthy and eating last night. I just found her this morning dead. Her lower rear abdomen is very distended and when I pressed on it, a thick yellow stinky fluid came out of an area a half inch below her vent.

Her vent itself is clean and dry.

They are all on turkey starter (because of the two poults), and yesterday I gave them a treat of goats milk soaked turkey starter. It is fresh goats milk that had clabbered over night.
 
Even at a week old? Or more, she had lengthy wing feathers
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So the yolk sac can fester if it is not completely absorbed?
 

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