Chick hatching, blood in egg

[courtsmarans]

Hatching question! I have a chick in the process of hatching, still alive and moving, that has blood on the inner membrane. I picked at just a little piece of the shell and a little blood seeped out. I have never seen this happen. This chick a gonner or should i just help him out and see what happens? I can include a picture if needed.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Don't help, don't interfere, keep the incubator closed and humidified.
There is often a lot of blood on membranes after chicks hatch.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Why did you try to help? Before a chick hatches it retracts the blood from blood veins or arteries outside its body. That's part of it getting ready to hatch. If it is not ready to hatch you can kill it by causing it to bleed to death.

I don't know what is going on, there can be legitimate reasons to help. If you have to help the chick might not make it anyway. I understand trying to help if the chick is in trouble, but what is going on?

Canoe, the way I read this the chick has not yet hatched. I could be wrong.

 

[courtsmarans]

Why did you try to help? Before a chick hatches it retracts the blood from blood veins or arteries outside its body. That's part of it getting ready to hatch. If it is not ready to hatch you can kill it by causing it to bleed to death.

I don't know what is going on, there can be legitimate reasons to help. If you have to help the chick might not make it anyway. I understand trying to help if the chick is in trouble, but what is going on?

Canoe, the way I read this the chick has not yet hatched. I could be wrong.

I tried to help because it was bleeding. Its probably about halfway through the hatch so I thought the bleeding was extra strange. I was really looking forward to this health and I am frustrated, scolding is not helping.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I read it the same way.

Canoe, the way I read this the chick has not yet hatched. I could be wrong.

 

[courtsmarans]

Don't help, don't interfere, keep the incubator closed and humidified.
There is often a lot of blood on membranes after chicks hatch.

I was reading that you should put a wet paper towel over it to keep it from drying out. Have you ever tried that?

 

[Lin_0330]

If the chick has break the putter shell and can breathe normally I would leave it 24 hours for it to absorb all the blood and egg york.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I tried to help because it was bleeding. Its probably about halfway through the hatch so I thought the bleeding was extra strange. I was really looking forward to this health and I am frustrated, scolding is not helping.

I'm not intending to scold, I'm trying to find out what is going on so i can offer some kind of help. I had no idea what your experience level is, what stage of hatching that chick was in, or why you started picking at the shell. My main concern was to get you to stop picking at the shell until we got more information. If my being blunt to try to stop you from doing more harm upset you, then be upset.

If the chick started bleeding on its own after pip it probably started hatching before it was entirely ready. That happens sometimes, often they do a lot of the preparatory work for hatching after pip, like absorbing the yolk or drying up the last of those blood vessels.. Sounds like this one started before all the blood had been absorbed and it happened to hit a blood vein. when it pipped Just a bit of bad luck.

That is not a death sentence, they don't always absorb all the blood anyway and do OK. I assume it is in an incubator and you have raised the humidity for lockdown. I would leave it alone. Putting a wet paper towel around it would be if it were dried out. If the humidity is up that should not be necessary.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I tried to help because it was bleeding. Its probably about halfway through the hatch so I thought the bleeding was extra strange. I was really looking forward to this health and I am frustrated, scolding is not helping.

I'm sorry you perceived our responses to your request as scolding to you. Some of us may not be as warm and fuzzy as some would like because we're too matter of fact but we're still here to help.
It takes time for chicks to hatch and humans need to acquire the patience of a mother hen.
I realize we read about lots of people in the habit of assisting hatches but IMO, it is the wrong thing to do. Chickens have been hatching for a million + years with no human intervention. So they shouldn't need our help now.
If we constantly assist, those with weak genetics will beget embryos that need assistance.
Survival of the fittest means that wild animals need no human assistance reproducing.
I think it is important to understand that not all creatures are meant to survive hatching or birth. Without a huge medical staff and millions of dollars of equipment, human babies would have a much worse infant mortality rate.