CHICK DEFORMATION HELP PLS

[Fishkeeper]

No, pushing it back won't work. Either it'll get an infection and die of sepsis, or the organs will get twisted, the bloodflow will get cut off, the area of the organ will die and rot, and the chick will die of gangrene. Both are nasty, slow, painful deaths.

If you're going to hatch chicks, you have to be prepared to deal with any that need to be culled. If you can't do it yourself, you need to quickly find someone who can. Probably the best method you have available to you is a pair of sharp scissors to remove the head. One hard snip will do it- don't hesitate. The body may move some after this, but that doesn't mean the chick is alive still, that means that remaining nerves are firing randomly.

 

[Vhope77]

Navel?
Did you see her absorb the yolk sac?
I have not had a chick survive something like this. I would worry about infection even if you were able to push it back in. If she were mine, I would put her down.
I'm very sorry

I understand it can be hard to do, but there comes a time when we have to make difficult decisions.

I honestly can not make myself put down this chick ...

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I honestly can not make myself put down this chick ...

I know it's hard.
Do you have a family member or neighbor that can help you?
A sharp pair of scissors as suggested would be efficient. You can cover the chick with a paper towel so you don't have to watch.
Even if the intestines are absorbed/retract. I fear there will be infection. The abdomen will swell with fluid and infection and the chick will be in a lot of pain. This will just prolong suffering.

I will give you a link.
I personally do not agree with this method at all, but there is a "hands off" method that some do use to put a chick down. I am more hands on and once I make the decision to put one down, I want to know I've done it as quick and painless as possible (not for me, but for the chick)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...re-culling-the-injured-and-sick-babies.72140/

 

[MissChick@dee]

Oh poor fella. If you think it all the way through. Yes you could try to push it back in methodically with a blunt appropriate sized tool (if there is such a thing)but... IMHO it wouldn’t save him. Trying to correct that is way above my pay grade. No guarantee that he’d be able to pass waste material. Unfortunately if he were my little guy I’d show some loving kindness and be merciful and dispatch him. Sometimes things go wrong. So sorry.

 

[Fishkeeper]

What you have to understand is that this chick is going to die. Either it can die a long, slow, painful death, or it can die quickly. You need to put it to sleep, or find someone who can.

 

[Vhope77]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/emergency-chick-with-exposed-navel.418334/ In this link a person had the same thing happen to her chick and it lived ? I understand though that it May get very sick and die and the human thing is to cull

 

[TheDisease21002]

And how do I do that

There are many methods like the baking soda method. I've encountered a deformed chick before. Though this method is unpreferable by most I prefer to take a very hard rock and place the chick on a very hard surface. The rest should be obvious but the chick dies instantly. This would be a little extreme for some but there are less stressful methods to cull a chick. Like the baking soda/powder method

 

[Fishkeeper]

One person in that thread had a chick with a prolapsed vent, which is known to be fixable. The other person probably had a chick with a yolk sac absorption issue, which is also known to be fixable. The person who posted the thread had a chick with an issue like yours, where the intestine is coming out the navel. They didn't say whether the chick lived, but they did say that it started to act worse. I suspect from their lack of triumphant reply that it died.

You have an animal whose intestines are coming out through what is essentially a wound. Without veterinary surgery, it is going to die, and you're not going to find a vet who'll deal with a newly hatched chick. It probably wouldn't survive anesthesia. You need to find someone who can euthanize the chick for you. The organ is probably already dying off from being exposed and under pressure, which is painful, and will start to affect everything else.

You need to help that chick. The only way you can help it now is to put it out of its misery.

I really don't suggest the baking soda method, for any animal. It relies on suffocation via CO2, which is inhumane because the animal is aware of the loss of oxygen. If you have to use a suffocation method, you want carbon monoxide. It replaces the oxygen, but the CO2 levels never rise. High CO2 levels are what produce the feeling of suffocation. Without them, death is painless. We know that carbon monoxide doesn't feel painful because we've revived people who passed out from it and would have died, and talked to them about what happened. Exposure causes some level of dizziness, confusion, lightheadedness, and then nothing.
I've never nearly died from carbon monoxide, but I have low blood pressure. I've passed out from it, which is from a lack of oxygen to the brain. Same idea as carbon monoxide poisoning, and logically it would feel similar. It's not exactly fun, but it's not that bad. Better than dying of gangrene.

 

[Chickassan]

I'm normally one who tries to save them all, but iv'e hatched that deformity before and it dosent get better with that much out.
It can get worse very quickly though and it is horrifying.
The baking soda method is peaceful and dosent hurt, I swear.

 

[Saaniya]

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @Saaniya Anything you can do to help?

This thing is very tough seems to me Prolapsed but if u can push that inside very slowly and see if it fix
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