Insides coming out of belly button

[Luna's chicks]

My son has just hatched his third batch of chicks. These eggs came from the local auction. We had one hatch today that had a large reddish blob. (For lack of better term) protruding out of what I have determined is the belly button. It is quite lively and has gotten out of three "diapers"we made for it (trying to keep it contained while we figure out what to do). It pulled much of its intestines and insides out. We finally took a q- tip, took the cotton off, dipped it in anti biotic ointment and tediously got all but the original red "blob" back in. I'm trying to determine if it could possibly be the yolk sack, or if it's something that needs to go back inside. I thought it might be liver, but it just didn't look right. Any help would be appreciated. I honestly didn't expect it to make it at all, but it seems to have a will to live and my son is intent on it doing well. I'm willing to try.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I had two chicks...the one in the pics with the intestine exposed and one that was pecked out of the shell by the hen. The last chick's yolk sac was broken open as well as a hole pecked in it's abdomen. I repaired both chicks with this technique and both chicks never missed a beat. Both were surprisingly bright and hardy and showed no signs of infection. The first chick with the pecked yolk sac had it replaced with non sterile equipment because I didn't have the ability since I was holding it from expelling worse. I did give it the tiniest bit of antibiotic because of this. The second chick didn't get any antibiotic. The hernia happened while he was still in the incubator in a container.

The hole on both chicks was healed in a day...but I kept that band-aid on for a few days to make certain everything was healed and to make sure a chick didn't get curious and peck the area. The wound didn't show any major drainage, which surprised me.

 

[drumstick diva]

Wicked Chicken you are amazing. Hope this can help the op's chick.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Hi! Do you have a picture of the red blob. It does sound like it's part from inside. This can be fixed. I've done it. I've got pics I can show you.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Sorry I didn't see this sooner @Luna's chicks

 

[Suzi18]

Hope all goes well.

 

[Luna's chicks]

Thank you for responding. I'm trying to figure out how to upload photos.

 

[Luna's chicks]

This was first thing this morning

 

[Wickedchicken6]

So it hatched with this? This was exposed like the picture when the chick hatched?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

That is quite a mass...I'm just looking up the pics from my chicks that I fixed. Is this the mass back that was placed back inside the chick with the q-tip?

That's quite an ingenious idea...using the end of a sterilized q-tip.