HELP!! New hatch question!!!!!

[kemcconnell]

one of my babies hatched around 11 pm last night in the incubator. This morning I noticed that there is a clump of something cone tend to a stringlike fiber oming out of what appears to be its little butt. As I was moving some out into the brooder I gently tried to just remove what was hanging and it appears stuck and that the little baby did not like that I did that! WHAT DO I DO?! What is it?! And how to I make it go away?! It's still there!!!!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Leave it there. Its your chicks umbilical cord, and it will eventually go away on its own.

Its very normal

 

[AmyLynn2374]

one of my babies hatched around 11 pm last night in the incubator. This morning I noticed that there is a clump of something cone tend to a stringlike fiber oming out of what appears to be its little butt. As I was moving some out into the brooder I gently tried to just remove what was hanging and it appears stuck and that the little baby did not like that I did that! WHAT DO I DO?! What is it?! And how to I make it go away?! It's still there!!!!

Leave it there. Its your chicks umbilical cord, and it will eventually go away on its own.

Its very normal

xs 2...DON'T pull at it! Let it dry and fall off or you can cut it up closer to the "belly button" once it has dried.

 

[kemcconnell]

Thanks! I just went to check on them and it's drying up!