My chick has something stuck to her butt

[LhickenChicken]

Did you help any of these hatch? Id cull all three as the intestines looks to be hanging out on two of them

I helped the dark one. The third picture is the same chick. The dark one (Joy) had pipped on 3 days before hatching and has been moving around in the egg since, so I decided to help her.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Can you take better pictures? Close ups of the umbilical site for each chick? It could just be a bit of the egg membrane or something but it's hard to tell from the pictures.

No that's the best I can get I think it's the yolk sac

 

[Isadora]

No that's the best I can get I think it's the yolk sac

You can't pick it up and take a picture of it?

 

[LhickenChicken]

I helped the dark one. The third picture is the same chick. The dark one (Joy) had pipped on 3 days before hatching and has been moving around in the egg since, so I decided to help her.

For the yellow chick she hatched on her own

 

[SmiYa0126]

@LhickenChicken keep an eye on them, after they're fluffed up see if they eat and drink, but it's possible you'll lose them both . I'm so sorry.

 

[LhickenChicken]

You can't pick it up and take a picture of it?

I will tell you the truth-- I am SOO afraid of picking up chicks. I was told a story about my aunt where she was patting a chick on the head and accidentally beheaded it. gross. So that's why I am that afraid of picking chicks up.

 

[LhickenChicken]

@LhickenChicken keep an eye on them, after they're fluffed up see if they eat and drink, but it's possible you'll lose them both . I'm so sorry.

 

[LhickenChicken]

@LhickenChicken keep an eye on them, after they're fluffed up see if they eat and drink, but it's possible you'll lose them both . I'm so sorry.

They're in the incubator, should I move them to the brooder with the other chicks??

 

[Isadora]

I will tell you the truth-- I am SOO afraid of picking up chicks. I was told a story about my aunt where she was patting a chick on the head and accidentally beheaded it. gross. So that's why I am that afraid of picking chicks up.

Yikes! I don't understand how that would physically be possible.
With people already giving the most severe ultimatum such as culling, I just want to be sure we all know what we're dealing with, hence asking for better pictures.
If you gently cup your hand around their body, you won't hurt them. I promise.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Also what is mushy chick disease @SmiYa0126 ??