North Carolina

[dutchbunny83]

 

[Lizabelsherrill]

 

[wildriverswolf90]

how CUTE

 

[dutchbunny83]

I just had a chick hatch and it looks like it has an umbilical cord???
There's a yolky rope with a red line going into a little opening on the chicks belly.
He is breathing and out of the shell, but can't really move around because it's pulling him.
Do I cut it???

 

[wildriverswolf90]

I just had a chick hatch and it looks like it has an umbilical cord???
There's a yolky rope with a red line going into a little opening on the chicks belly.
He is breathing and out of the shell, but can't really move around because it's pulling him.
Do I cut it???

leave it. It'll dry up and fall off soon. It's the yolk that was unabsorbed before he hatched.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Okay, thanks so much!!!!

 

[tammyfarms]

Your new baby is cute, cute, cute! I have had one with an attached umbilical cord. They drop off pretty quickly and it will be just fine

How many do you have now?

 

[tammyfarms]

Oh!!!! How could I forget! I have two hatched, one lav am and one marans/am ee out of their shells and wobbling around in the incubator. Several more are pipped!

 

[2Sesslers]

OMG! I WANT ONE!

 

[wildriverswolf90]

I have babies due tomorrow they are oliver eggers from a fellow byc'er. Candled them as best I could and they all look fully developed I can't wait, been dying for olive eggs. And my marans hens should begin laying any day now

wanted to share a pic of one of the neighbor kids feeding the chickens, she has been working to make my free range flock more friendly, and is slowly turning them into pets. Scratch buffet anyone?