Please hellp... we helped out chick out of its' shell and now it has something protruding, egg sac a

[iceseal]

I just signed on to this site this morning hoping someone can give me some advice for our problem. Our chick was piping in the same spot with no progress for about 12 hours and so my husband helped it out. I know this is not recommended but it did not seem like it had the energy to get out and the membrane was getting dried. We chipped away at the egg in a circle at the top and then waited, she continued piping in the same spot but did not make progress. Then we opened up some of the membrane and she finally pushed through. I immediately saw what I think was a yolk sac and umbilicus. I read on this site that I should put her back in the incubator with a wet papertowel. This am the chick is still alive, resting but then sitting up and moving and chirping, then resting again, and the towel was red/brown tainted. I replaced the towel with another moist one and it is red/brown again. I also think I see what may be intestine, curly material on its abdomen. I know I should cull her but I do not have the nerve and so would like some advice on the best thing to make her comfortable. I gave her a little water from an eyedropper, should I give her some sugar water, should I put her on a dry paper towel. Please help, we lost a full dozen eggs in June due to incubator issues, got a new incubator and got only one healthy chick and now this one.

 

[fried green eggs]

Hi &

! I'm sorry your hatch rates have not been going well. With this little one you describe - you can try giving it a little sugar water and maybe it will make it. When they don't progress in hatching, it maybe that they are not ready ie have not absorbed the yoke. If what you are seeing on it's abdomen is really it's intestines and not just the umbilical cord ? Then it needs to be culled. I'm so sorry to say this to you.

Hatching eggs is not easy and everything during incubating needs to be very steady and just right or they don't hatch. Are these shipped eggs or home-grown? Shipped eggs are really hard to get high hatch rates even when incubated in perfect conditions. Good Luck

 

[iceseal]

Should I be trimming something. I am reading a lot about trimming and I don't have a clue what to trim.

 

[Aschenfire]

If you think what you see is intestine, I would not trim ANYTHING. This baby may make it...or may not. It sounds like it has a lot of *stuff* outside of it's little body, and all you can do is keep doing what you have, and hope.

 

[rbaker0345]

I would keep up with what you're doing, but additionally, I would put some kind of antiseptic on the umbillicus. In baby horses, we use iodine, but it seems you would want to keep this one moist, so I bet a triple antibiotic ointment would give you that moisture and some needed protection from bacteria.

From now on, I would recommend that you lower the temperature in your incubator by a degree. Chicks will start to pip early when the temperature in the incubator is too high.