Baby chick hatched with a bulge exposed

[NuggetNoob]

Could really use some advice. Saw some posts about insides coming out but most had intestines or such coming out. This one was just hatched with a bulging vent? It was bleeding initially so we thought some guts may come out if it kept flailing around . This is our first time hatching the eggs ourselves and it’s been a very interesting ordeal so far. Managed to make a boot for one chick earlier that was born with a curled up foot so hoping that one is okay as well. Read many helpful things here so I thought it might help to join and post for advice. Thank you.

 

[Myrshine]

This is where the egg yolk get absorbed before the chick hatches, then it closes up, making a navel. I’d leave it alone, let it continue to heal and absorb it properly. This is pretty normal with birds to have a “bulge” like that. Is it oozing? Anything leaking out?

 

[CoopsNPoops]

That is a very beautiful healthy looking umbilical area actually. This is perfectly normal and what it's supposed to look like. It will heal closed. The concerns would be prominent bulging yellow bloody fatty looking material, which would be the yolk the chick is supposed to fully absorb before hatching, oozing, uncontrollable bleeding, etc. The string looking thing hanging out is just the umbilical cord.. Also, how long since hatch did you treat the curdled foot? Minutes? Hours? Treating it wont hurt regardless, but it can sometimes be normal for newly hatched chicks to take awhile to fully extend their toes without something actually being wrong or abnormal.

 

[NuggetNoob]

That is a very beautiful healthy looking umbilical area actually. This is perfectly normal and what it's supposed to look like. It will heal closed. The concerns would be prominent bulging yellow bloody fatty looking material, which would be the yolk the chick is supposed to fully absorb before hatching, oozing, uncontrollable bleeding, etc. The string looking thing hanging out is just the umbilical cord.. Also, how long since hatch did you treat the curdled foot? Minutes? Hours? Treating it wont hurt regardless, but it can sometimes be normal for newly hatched chicks to take awhile to fully extend their toes without something actually being wrong or abnormal.

Okay thank you! None of the others had anything looking like that sticking out so far. The curled foot one hatched over night and we taped up the boot to straighten it midday so that was probably at about 12 hours? It still couldn’t stand. It isn’t straightening that leg at all like it is it’s other leg today either. It seems kind of rigid where it bends, I didn’t want to force it straight and break it. The chick is eating and drinking, just flopping over to where it wants to go. I may remove the boot to see what’s going on with the leg?

 

[NuggetNoob]

This is where the egg yolk get absorbed before the chick hatches, then it closes up, making a navel. I’d leave it alone, let it continue to heal and absorb it properly. This is pretty normal with birds to have a “bulge” like that. Is it oozing? Anything leaking out?

Initially it had some blood coming out, so far nothing else, just seems very exposed. I don’t need to cover it then? I’m worried it’ll get infected.

 

[NuggetNoob]

Okay thank you! None of the others had anything looking like that sticking out so far. The curled foot one hatched over night and we taped up the boot to straighten it midday so that was probably at about 12 hours? It still couldn’t stand. It isn’t straightening that leg at all like it is it’s other leg today either. It seems kind of rigid where it bends, I didn’t want to force it straight and break it. The chick is eating and drinking, just flopping over to where it wants to go. I may remove the boot to see what’s going on with the leg?

I’m trying to put a pic up, it won’t straighten that leg at all it just wobbles on it as support while using the other leg to get places.

 

[NuggetNoob]

this is bulging baby today