Baby chick has flap of skin on his bottom?

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paneubert said:
First, so sorry to the original poster. I hope the chick makes it even though it is not looking good. :(

But on the topic of "cords", while it may not be literally/medically an umbilical cord, I can tell you from hatching hundreds of chicks as well as being the father of two real kids, if the chick has one sticking out, the thing sticking out of their abdomen can look, feel, and act pretty much the same in both birds and humans when it is drying out and falling off. Same risks of "pulling" on it as well. If it is going to heal and fall off on its own, it will do it on its own timeline. I have nightmares from pulling on my daughters cord when I thought it was only hanging on by a thread (she was a couple days old at that point). It was not ready to come off....haha. No harm done, except to my mental state.
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What you are seeing is the baby chick absorbing the remainder of the egg yolk. An umbilical cord is an aparatus that attaches the baby's systems to the mother while in the womb. As chickens do not develop inside of the body of the mother they do not have the same apparatus. The baby chick absorbs the remainder of the yolk which gives them enough energy to get them by until the clutch has hatched and in the case of precocial baby's, such as chickens, enough energy until mom takes them out and they start to find food on their own. This generally is up to about 3 days. Yes maybe it does feel like the same thing, however in the interest of posting information that is mediacally correct it helps us all if we can use the same terms. It may seem like nit picking however in the long run the better the information the better the custodian.
 
SilversRule said:
What you are seeing is the baby chick absorbing the remainder of the egg yolk. An umbilical cord is an aparatus that attaches the baby's systems to the mother while in the womb. As chickens do not develop inside of the body of the mother they do not have the same apparatus. The baby chick absorbs the remainder of the yolk which gives them enough energy to get them by until the clutch has hatched and in the case of precocial baby's, such as chickens, enough energy until mom takes them out and they start to find food on their own. This generally is up to about 3 days. Yes maybe it does feel like the same thing, however in the interest of posting information that is mediacally correct it helps us all if we can use the same terms. It may seem like nit picking however in the long run the better the information the better the custodian.
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Yeah, it's not exactly the same.....but it's close....umbilical cord attaches baby to the placenta in a mammal and to the yolk in a bird. True that the yolk is inside the chicks body while the placenta remains external to the baby mammal. There is a piece of tissue that can be outside the chicks body at the umbilicus after hatch.....and it's typically, if not absolutely accurately, called the 'umbilical cord'.

It's hard to tell here what that 'flap of skin' actually is...I wish I could touch it.
 
SilversRule said:
What you are seeing is the baby chick absorbing the remainder of the egg yolk. An umbilical cord is an aparatus that attaches the baby's systems to the mother while in the womb. As chickens do not develop inside of the body of the mother they do not have the same apparatus. The baby chick absorbs the remainder of the yolk which gives them enough energy to get them by until the clutch has hatched and in the case of precocial baby's, such as chickens, enough energy until mom takes them out and they start to find food on their own. This generally is up to about 3 days. Yes maybe it does feel like the same thing, however in the interest of posting information that is mediacally correct it helps us all if we can use the same terms. It may seem like nit picking however in the long run the better the information the better the custodian.
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You seem to be missing the point. That point being that messing with or pulling on it can result in the insides becoming the outsides. Doesn't matter what you call the body part or what purpose it served in the creatures development if the end result is the same.

This makes me think of the "that isn't a hen until it is xxxx months old. It is a pullet" And "that isn't a rooster, it is a cockerel" when someone is asking a question that does not rely on accurate nomenclature to answer. While accurate and true, does it matter in the case at hand? That's what I ask myself.
 
WVduckchick said:
It almost looks like a piece of the shell membrane, just stuck to the feathers/skin, but it would certainly seem that would be dried up and fallen off by now.
How’s the chick doing now?
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Hi WVduckchick ..she is doing better!! Eating and drinking with the rest of the crew watching her close but after she had the vinegar/water she had a turn around and starting drinking and later on she started eating :love
 

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