Help! 1st chick hatched with what looks like scrambled egg on navel?

[chickboss]

Is this at all normal? If not, what do I do? Trying to get pic, but camera lense is focused on the hatching tray cover and it is fuzzy. Oh, the bit that looks like scrambled egg is about pea sized.

 

[lemurchaser]

I think so. They can have some whitish goop on their navel. To me it kinda looks like old rubber chicken poop. If you look in the bottoms of the hatched egg shells, you'll see more of it, most of them leave it behind when they hatch.

 

[chickboss]

Okay. This is definantly yellow, but hopefully is what you are discribing. I see the goop in the shell. So I can breath......LOL. It's our very first hatchling ever! Thank you!!

 

[prissyfarmer]

it is part of the cord, it is ok...

 

[chickboss]

Sooooo relieved to hear it twice! Thank you! Was a great hatch to watch. Baby didn't take too many breaks once it got started so we didn't have to hold our breath too long wondering if there was a problem. LOL, Good 1st baby!