Black yolk sac?****pics added***

[Wegs813]

Now another question....one of the hatched ones that is still in the incubator has what looks like intestine type stuff on the outside of it's body. I did wash him off a little and it appears that it goes in to his vent. Is this part of the innards on the outside? Do I need to cull him or will it absord in to the body? This is my first experience with this problem and I'm really not sure what to do. I was really hoping to have him make it, otherwise I only have one chick out of this hatch and and it will be all alone.

 

[leahthor]

A lot of dogs do eat the placenta. I breed German Shorthaired Pointers and we NEVER let a female whelp without us there. We found that if we remove the placentas after they are born and before the dam eats them, then we don't need to worry about any being left in her that could result in an uterine infection because we know how many have been expelled.

Strictly personal preference.

 

[Gypsy07]

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This is what he looked like unwrapped. To me it looks like he was fully developed, except for the yolk sac.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/56528_full.jpg

Hmm. That chick doesn't look fully developed at all to me. Its legs and feet are kinda soft and rubbery looking and its head looks weird too. Not weird as in deformed, just weird as in not fully grown. Any chicks I've had that have died after pipping (or that have died just before they should have pipped) have all looked more fully developed than this chick.

Does anyone have eggtopsy photos of every day of embryo development? Is it possible that this is just what a day 17 or so quitter looks like normally? Or is that a really stupid notion? I was just thinking that of all my eggs that have died, they've all been very early or very late quitters. Either just a tiny mush of cells with a big bulgy eye or a fully formed chick with just a little bit of unabsorbed yolk. I have no idea what a normal embryo looks like round about days 16-18...

 

[GreenGoddess]

Here is an awesome link.... http://zzz262.multiply.com/photos/album/107/Chick_embryo_-_Stages_of_development#

Goddess

 

[chikkaboomboom]

When I whelp pups I take the placentas and keep them till the end, then I count them to make sure non are retained, retained placentas meen you will probably have to go to the vet or risk a uterine infection, not a good thing.. the last few pups I will let her eat them, IF im not to exhausted by then... but yes I have seen black placentas after pups have died* or been whelped*, and I always assumed it was decomposing ...

 

[speckledhen]

Looks like intestines are on the outside. I've had it happen a few times with shipped eggs. Sadly, there is no hope for a chick like that.

 

[quintinp]

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hahahahaa innards, i'm from oklahoma and i don't say innards,

 

[quintinp]

just kidding i used to say innards, before my dad which i just recently met, (which is a long story), got mad at me because of my hick references to certain things hahahahahah

 

[mustanggeniv]

Wow, one of our chicks (from our first try at the incubator) came out alive but had a black sack attached about the size of an olive. I went to go take a picture and it had popped. The chicken is moving around and dragging the remains of the sac behind and what came out looks like green yolk. I tried to attach a picture but couldn't see how. Will a chick survive if it didn't suck in the yolk before hatching, is there anything that can be done. Its still alive and I've separated it from the others, but the sac is still attached and I would prefer it to live....

It died about a half hour later. I believe the yolk (the insides of the black sac was a yellowy green) wasn't absorbed in time. Turns out my husband was a little too eager to 'help' and that was the result of hatching too early.

 

[HathawayHens]

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just wanted to mention that the black / green colored material around a dog's placenta is blood that has been in the area of attachment to the uterus. Dogs have what is called a zonaray placenta, and that colored material is normal. It is nothing like a yolk sac, it is simply where the pup's placenta had attached to the dam.