chick hatched with some insides outside, what is it and what to do?!!

[Phoenixxx]

One chick just hatched with some insides outside. I've gutted a few birds in my time but not sure what's hanging out. It's red, round, and big. There's a bright green spot on it (gall bladder?) but the mass doesn't look like a liver. I searched and the only other thread I found was with intestines hanging out. I'll try get a pic and post.

 

[Phoenixxx]

 

[Phoenixxx]

I've got it in a bowl in the tub with the hot shower on a trickle (for heat and humidity) because the wire mesh was starting to cut whatever the lump is.

 

[Phoenixxx]

Oh, and it's hanging out of the navel, not the vent.

 

[Phoenixxx]

I wound up wrapping some saran wrap around the mass to keep it moist and put her on a paper towel back in the incubator. Took the new chicken-protector-in-training out for a while and when I came back, the incubator had blood and yellow liquid everywhere. I did read about unabsorbed yolk sacs but what was hanging out definitely looked like actual organs, though which I'm still not sure. She was bleeding everywhere, even flung some in my face with her feet, and totally was in pain so I culled the poor thing. For anyone reading this, breaking the neck doesn't work on their ultra-flexible necks so I don't recommend that method. I tried 3 times and heard a snap at least once but she was still breathing and alive. I had to put her on the chopping block. At least there she got to feel sunshine and smell the trees and the ocean on her way out.

 

[walkerbrens]

You did the right thing!

 

[Phoenixxx]

You did the right thing!

Thanks, I feel awful, though! What a way to end a long, sleepless night! On the bright side, out of 15 I had one dud and 14 hatch so that's way better than my last batch. So tired... gonna go look in on my broody, the evil dragon lady. Her clutch should be hatching right now

 

[MySweetChickens]

those weren't his guts that was yolk and yes you did the right thing it sounds like the yolk might have been infected