newly hatched welsummer chick with yolk sac still attached

[bkvail]

I have not opened my incubator for 3 days - and the chicks are hatching this morning. Three are hatched now and 2 pipped.... one of the new hatchlings still has the yolk sac attached - will it be OK? It is reddish looking and about the size of a nickle and still attached and dragging behind it as it hobbles about in the incubator. This is my first chicken hatch, but I have had two quail hatches earlier this year.

 

[bkvail]

it is still attached, although it may be getting smaller, not sure. He's still alive anyhow.....

I have another one pipped, but the pip hole has blood in it - is that bad news?

 

[mulia24]

OMG, i haven't get that problem then i'll let expert explained it.

i keep my finger crossed for you.

 

[bkvail]

4th one is hatched!

 

[justmeandtheflock]

I am far from an expert but I think that I have read that it can continue to absorb after the chick has hatched. I'm not sure if you should do anything special for it. Good luck!

 

[bkvail]

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I hope so! It's still alive so far........ and the sac looks smaller and less ''liquidy'', but looks very red now.......

 

[bkvail]

well, that chick didn't make it, but there are 8 others that did and 3 others pipped and starting to 'zip' now. Only one egg of the original 13 I took from momma that appears that it's not going to hatch. (momma killed the last batch I let her set on her own, that is why I put them in incubator). I have 4 other eggs that are in there due on the 19th, but I dont' have much hope for them as they were refrigerated eggs (I set them in the incubator after I thought the hen was gone, then found her and her nest of 13 after the 4 eggs were already in the incubator) I can't wait until they fluff out - cute little welsummer babies!!!