chick with portruding vent

[secuono]

You have a pic of this chick's vent? I seem to have chicks with vents that seem to stick out, but no idea if it's normal or what...

 

[pattgal]

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I guess I should've left him in the shell then. I had to help him out a little. not because he was weak but because on day 20 the eggs got disturbed by a curious hen while the broody was off the nest and cracked a hole in the egg. I wasn't sure he would make it but he did. the membrane dried out and was keeping him from hatching after 24 hours I decided to let him out
and that is where the prolapsed vent comes from. I don't know if it is related to the dried up membrane or not.

I'm gonna have to wash him anyway since his feathers didn't dry properly. So I'm gonna try applying honey while I'm at it, or some ointment (Would that be a good substitute for Prep. H?)

had to help mine out too.

and he was totally sticky like you say...had to wash and blow dry, etc...lesson learned. first and last time i do that. you see him out in the yard now and he is so pretty and sharp looking (he's rumpless, so unusual too) and then when he turns around his rear is constantly covered in poo...don't mean to be gross but it is just AWFUL. at this point i am just letting him get some more weight on him. gonna have to clean him up REALLY good before we eat him. i guess a major soak before butchering. ugh. if it doesn't get better with your attempts at helping/fixing, let it go. my bird's vent just never did get it's pucker back so to speak...always slightly open. you can imagine how bad that is.

It's weird thought because most of my birds have that poopy but thing, and cleaning it doesn't help.

 

[Crazy Chicken Fever]

I thought I would post this because I found it VERY helpful when hatching chicks and turkeys that had not sucked up all the yoke before hatching. I found this information on a website made by a chicken farmer, I wish I would have remembered where it was because she had photos to show you just what to do step by step. I will give you the best details I can. If you have a chick hatch, or you help a chick hatch a bit to early and the yoke is still hanging out of it's bottom, rush over to the sink and wet a warm paper towel wrap the chick in the paper towel and place the chick in a zip lock sandwich bag with only the head hanging out of the bag. What this does is act like the shell of the egg and helps the chick suck up the yoke that way it should have before it hatched. Once I have my chick in the bag I place it back into the incubator until the chick starts moving around on it's own. Many times I will wake up in the morning and the chick will be out of the bag and running around in the incubator all on it's own. I have saved MANY chicks this way! It works wonderful, I hope it helps you as well.