Green slime around underdeveloped chick?

[Cara]

I think that's it. It says it can be caused by excessive humidity, and I had humidity problems the first day or so. It also says it can happen in cracked eggs; they all arrived intact, but some of my hatched chicks chipped a little piece off that shell yesterday. I wonder whether that let the infection in. There was nothing visibly wrong with the chick.

I had a 'miracle chick' yesterday. It was struggling to get the shell off its butt, and I made the mistake of pulling it. There was an awful lot of blood coming from its butt, and it just layed there so I thought it must be dead. I set it in a box to take outside, and went to wash my hands, and when I came back it caught my eye and I saw it was breathing. I set it back in the incubator, and when I got up this morning it was cheeping and walking around.

 

[silkiechicken]

If the green stuff was only a "sac" then it could also be the embryonic "chicken poo" that collects in it.

 

[Cara]

The membrane with the veins was full of the green slime, but there wasn't any outside of that. It was more watery than the poop that is stuck to them when they hatch, and there was a lot of it. I'm surprised it didn't smell, it looked disgusting.

 

[silkiechicken]

I wonder if the yolk went bad and so it turned green and what you were seeing was an infected yolk sac?

 

[Cara]

The green stuff wasn't in its own separate sac, but the veiny membrane was acting like a sac holding the chick and the green goo. Sorry if i'm being confusing. There's no way I could have taken a picture, it was too yucky.

 

[inquisitivebird]

This happened to me today. The chick was alive and stuck so I decided to help it. It hadn't pipped and was a day late so I peeked in the shell and saw it had internally pipped with some membrane dried to it.. I started peeling off the membrane and then noticed the green goo. Its exactly as you describe, with no smell. I washed it all off the chick then wrapped it in a damb cloth and put it back in the incubator. It's yolk sack seemed to be. Almost absorbed but not quite. It's there now peeping like normal in the cloth. I will check it in the morning. Has anyone seen this before?

 

[casportpony]

This happened to me today. The chick was alive and stuck so I decided to help it. It hadn't pipped and was a day late so I peeked in the shell and saw it had internally pipped with some membrane dried to it.. I started peeling off the membrane and then noticed the green goo. Its exactly as you describe, with no smell. I washed it all off the chick then wrapped it in a damb cloth and put it back in the incubator. It's yolk sack seemed to be. Almost absorbed but not quite. It's there now peeping like normal in the cloth. I will check it in the morning. Has anyone seen this before?

How's your chick doing?

 

[inquisitivebird]

I was surprised this morning to find the chick up and walking around. Really eager to live. It had the yolk sack dangling and drying up. I cut it off so it wouldn't get stuck on something. It mostly rests like in the first photo. The second photo is next to another chick hatched at the same time to show the size difference. This little chick is so tiny and very skinny. Like, skin and bones skinny. I put it with the others. We will see how it goes.

 

[inquisitivebird]

How's your chick doing?

I posted in the thread. Forgot to reply to you. It's still alive. See photos in previous post.