Chick just hatched...what is THIS? UPDATE and ? page 2

[swtangel321]

Time will tell, Keep thinking positive !!!!!!! From what your saying she sounds better !!!!

 

[Akane]

I'm surprised it's still alive. The one I had hatch out and lose that much blood didn't survive. Nothing else was wrong with it but it came out too soon, must have broke one of the blood vessels in the membrane before it was empty, and left quite a bit of blood around the egg. If it's moving around I suppose it might make it but odds aren't good.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Keep the other chicks away from this baby and keep this one in the incubator. It needs the humidity until the sack is absorbed or falls off. You may have to take a doubled thread and tie the yolk sack off just a little bit away from the chicks abdomen. Make sure there is no more yolk in the sack. It looks like the sack ruptured from the yellow contents on the floor of the bator. If so, I'd tie it off now to avoid bacteria entering the chick via the navel. After it is tied off well with several knots, cut the sack away just below the thread. You might want to dab a bit of betadine on the navel. Keep the chick in the bator until the navel dries up. I would give this baby some Poly-vi-sol...1 drop twice a day along side it's beak for about a week...then taper off. Make sure it has a little bit of water dribbled along side it's beak within about 24 hours since it didn't get all of the yolk. Perhaps it will survive. I sure hope so!!

 

[luvmychicknkids]

If she is still bleeding from the yolk area (which it appears to be) I woud tie it off up close to her belly with a thread. It would stop any bleeding and give her a much better chance of making it. And then get some fluids in her soon. JMO....I think she has a chance right now. Good luck with the little one and the rest of your hatch. One thing you can do is put her in a small box in the brooder, close to he heat lamp and wrap her in a moist towel. This will keep it moist but you won't have to open the bator to take care of her.

 

[therealsilkiechick]

personally if it was me i would cull it and save that poor baby from suffering a slow painful death and urself more heartache, i have never seen one that bad off and i don't see her liveing past 5 days old from experience.

u want healthy thriveing chicks to hatch not week sick ones. had she been left to hatch on her own she would have been just fine.

even as an experienced hatcher and nowing now how to help and save them if they need it, i can honestly say i'd show mercy for her i'd never attempt to save a chick in that condition. i have seen ones in alot less shape not near the damage of her not make it. i highly doubt she will make it past 3 days, she has no food, an open wound, premature and lost alot of blood. her face in the pic tells me she is in pain and weak on top of it all, to be honest i'll be surprised if she lives past 24 hours.

sorry for ur loss,
silkie

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

I would get this chick off that wire ASAP...either putting her in the brooder in a separate box or putting some rubber shelving in on top of the wire.

I'm not one to cull quickly, some people are...and that's fine. I think if the chick doesn't seem to be suffering, make it as comfortable as possible and let nature take it's course. They will surprise you sometimes. I do think this chick is going to require a lot of TLC over the next few days if it is going to survive.

 

[goatkeepers]

Good luck.

I sure hope she makes it!! Any updates?

 

[swtangel321]

How is the little one today ???

 

[beckyloveschicks]

Thanks everyone for th advice.

She's still alive this morning, walking around making lots of noise. I had another hatch after her last night and after a hour or so, I took the new one and put it in the brooder with the 1st that hatched earlier. She didn't like being left alone, but she curled up next to one of the other pipped eggs. When I got up this morning, she had 3 more siblings in the bator with her. And I removed all of them, leaving her alone. I added more water to get the humidity back up and left her alone. There are still 5 eggs in the bator, and today is day 22, so I'm giving them a little more time.

As for what to do with her, I am so on the fence. To be perfectly honest, the biggest part of me wants to look in the bator and see that she's died, that would make it easiest. Does that make me terrible? I have given a lot of though to culling, but in a way I want to see what happens. She doesn't seem to be suffering, other than loneliness because I keep taking her friends away. She is quite smaller than the other standards that hatched.

The other 5 are doing very well. I'm quite pleased with my first attempt at hatching.

 

[Solsken Farm]

Glad she made it through the night. Is she all fluffed up now? Is she still bleeding or has the navel scabbed over? Does she seem weak?

I am new to hatching, but these are my thoughts. If it were me, I would stick with her. She has made it through the most critical time. That is a good sign. Others here have more experience, but I am thinking if she is fluffed and moving around that it would be good to get her into her own brooder with a heat lamp, balled up sock, shallow bit of water and some medicated starter. I would put the polyvisol in the water, and try to get a drop in her mouth directly.

I had a chick hatch early and she was upset being alone. She was big and healthy but distressed. We all took turns holding our hands cupped, palm up and she would run and jump in and stop peeping and fall asleep. The children loved doing this and it imprinted her to some extent. She keeps running over now when we put our hands in and sits happily in our hand. She is 3 days old. And because she is a leader, some of the other chicks are copying her. Hopefully they will be friendlier from this early, non invasive bonding.

It seems to me, since she was hatched early by human intervention that this is not a chick that has a deformity or genetic issue. Her problem was the blood loss. So get her enough water, food and vitamins, and heat and she might just do fine.

Putting some type of vented liner on the wire would help your other newborns. Many people use shelf liner that is woven and has spaces to allow a pip to breath during hatching.

I also thinking it best to leave them in the incubator until they are fluffed and running around. Opening the bator and disturbing the hatchlings is just another stress to them all.

Good luck!