Help! First chick hatched and something hanging from vent! What do I do!!?!

[Noellereagan]

Here’s the photo.

@casportpony

 

[Noellereagan]

There’s also a little string. embellical cord? IF so, now what? This is my first chick EVER to hatch at home. I don’t want to lose the little one.

 

[BGcoop]

Could it be the “umbilical cord”? If it is you just leave it alone and it’ll go away on it’s own in a few days.

 

[gimmie birdies]

That is not his vent, it is his belly button, the navel didn't absorb well. hopefully it will dry up and fall off. If the chick kicked off shell before it was supposed to, some times they have rough navel. (or if someone helped it hatch...not saying you.) It is best they stay in egg as long as possible.

 

[Noellereagan]

That is not his vent, it is his belly button, the navel didn't absorb well. hopefully it will dry up and fall off. If the chick kicked off shell before it was supposed to, some times they have rough navel. (or if someone helped it hatch...not saying you.) It is best they stay in egg as long as possible.

Yes. This little one is about a day early. I woke up to him or her out. There’s nothing but eggs in the bator. No one helped out. It pipped over 24 hours ago and not due until tonight!

 

[Creteloc]

I just hatched 9 chicks last week and 3 of them had that. It goes away.

 

[casportpony]

That looks like yolk. If it were mine I would place it in a small container on a paper towel and hope that it finishes absorbing. If they yolk breaks the chick will almost certainly die, so IMO, this needs to be addressed ASAP. I would also suggest placing a paper towel over the wire grate in the incubator because those wire grates have a bad habit of rupturing exposed yolks.

@WVduckchick, @Pyxis, what do you guys do?

 

[casportpony]

Yes. This little one is about a day early. I woke up to him or her out. There’s nothing but eggs in the bator. No one helped out. It pipped over 24 hours ago and not due until tonight!

Get it off the wire ASAP!

 

[casportpony]

There’s also a little string. embellical cord? IF so, now what? This is my first chick EVER to hatch at home. I don’t want to lose the little one.

Can you take it out of the incubator and get a close up picture?

 

[Noellereagan]

That’s the shell.