Bladder on the outside????

[raindrop]

I know puppies and kittens can get inguinal hernias and other hernias, they are congenital and usually they are fine until something eventually gets trapped (like intestines) and constricted and then the rapidly go into shock and die. The chick might need surgery.

 

[MandyH]

If you press your finger through the sack into the body where it is originating from, is there a hole or is there skin?

 

[jeaucamom]

It seems like it is the skin of the entire thigh area. It is not like a balloon that has a small opening and then swells up away from the inlet. If that makes any sense????

 

[silkiechicken]

Well, if I were in your shoes, if it didn't make any "improvement" in that it went away or started to shrink/not fill up with fluid, I'd probably cull it. I'd hate to see it get pecked apart by another chick once they get old enough to do such things and bite hard enough, especially since it may be connected to its internals by what you found. Good luck.

 

[raindrop]

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That's true. One peck from another chick when they are a little older and the sack would tear and the chick would get an infection.

 

[MandyH]

If it were me, I would wait and see if it starts shrinking in a few days since she looks otherwise healthy and happy. But I would be inclined to cut it off and see if I could patch it up. That's just the nurse in me! It looks like a burn, could it have gotten too close to the light while the navel was being treated?

 

[jeaucamom]

I know, the nurse in me is desperately wanting to do surgery on it. (No hate mail please!!) It definitely is not a burn as I had taken her out of the hatcher and was laying on the table in my hand for warmth as I held her navel in with a q-tip. So no light and no burn. And I just can't figure out what the fluid is??? The only vet in the area that will test the fluid wants to have an office visit for $50 not including the lab work. That just isn't possible. I am slowly facing the possiblity of culling her, but she is so spunky and full of personality and doesn't seem to be fazed by it and none of the others even notice it even though she is bald there. My hatches have gone so poorly that it is just heartbreaking to have to cull a happy for-the-most-part healthyone.

 

[raindrop]

Sorry this happened, tough decision.

 

[MandyH]

Ok I'm thinking if the skin underneath is sealed and there are no guts that are going to be exposed, why not tie a string or rubberband around the sack as close to the body as possible and let it seal the skin while the sack falls off. Kind of like castrating something? Yeah, I know, that's some pretty smart thinking. You know being a nurse takes being inventive.

 

[jeaucamom]

Will that work if the area is not vacularized?? And there is this white thing floating around in there. I have no idea what it is and is doesn't seem to be attached to anything but it does have mass to it . And if I get rid of the sac, and the fluid returns like it did this time, and doesn't have anywhere to go, will it put pressure on what is underneath???