Chick emergency! help, please please help! Pictures

[pips&peeps]

My opinion is: "That's just odd."

Maybe there is an area around the rectum that has not quite fused up and the yolk is just poking out a bit?????? It really looks like the yolk sac.

Sorry I'm not of much help am I

 

[BlueMoon]

Another shot. She's still alive and she's a Java!

 

[dlhunicorn]

rinse it off with sterile saline and after with a very dilute iodine or betadine "teä" (ideally you would spray that area with Hibitine (chlorhexadine) which you can often find at your pharmacist or drugstore)... keep it on a towel with ktchen roll on top to catch any droppings (you can put a hot water bottle under the towel or a sack of rice that has been warmed in the microwave) to ensure it does not chill. I suggest the towel as with shavings there will be a puncture danger and with hay or straw pathogens...until that is reabsorbed then there is an infection danger. be sure and drizzle soem water along its beak and offer some chick starter. I do not think keeping it in with a strange adult or older bird is a good idea...they WILL peck it to death or step all over it .

 

[BlueMoon]

What a morning! Java Chick absorbed whatever was being pulled out (DLHUnicorn - what happened anyway?), left the sitting foster mother and made her way across the coop, under the heat lamps, to her sitting mother. She's so much smaller than the others, being a different breed and four days younger, but is keeping up.

Now the sitting mother is acting furious with the foster mother, as if it was her who stole the chick she had left to die. whoops...it was me.

 

[Fancy Feather Poultry]

I had a chick just like that
that I ordered and it arrived that
way.Most likely the chick had developed
wrong and the intestines were comi-
ng out of the vent and it eventually
died

 

[Fancy Feather Poultry]

Try not to stress
the little chick so much.

 

[SpottedCrow]

I'm so glad that the little peep's doing better...
sometimes they just need that extra time.

 

[BlueMoon]

Thanks Spotted Crow - I think that's exactly it. If I hadn't been home from work early, either it would have died or been fine all on it's own.

 

[hencackle]

That looks worrisome...if that vent area is that weak at hatching, I'd be worried that she would be prone to prolapse when she starts to lay (assuming that this is a pullet). Like dlhunicorn said, this area will be a target for pecking, injury and infection. I truly don't mean to sound heartless, but culling might be kinder in the long run.

 

[BlueMoon]

With the luck I've had with Javas, this invariably is a rooster, but I'm referring to it as a she (hope springs eternal).
The little red blob was absorbed or just disappeared. I don't know if she'll develop issues with her vent, but right now, she's seemingly healthy enough and I'm not ready to cull. Really, if I wait until she's ready to lay and there's a problem, we'll deal with it then.

Is there a name for what happened? It was like a section of the lining of the shell was stuck to her vent and pulling a portion of her insides out.