PLEASE HELP!!

[BabyGirl256]

I will definitely let y'all know the outcome. Thanks so much for all of your advice. I wish I could post a video. He is now walking around and chirping, he seems much less lethargic now.

 

[caesargirl]

Good luck.

 

[the poppster]

I may have some bite my head off....but if it was my chick I would put it out of its misery, or have a vet do it. At the rate that they grow if it is intestines things are only going to get worse...if or more likely when infection sets in the chick will probably die a painful death. Something went truly wrong during the development in the egg....chances are that if the chick survived it would suffer from something else...it sounds cruel but if it had hatched in the nest in the outside world it wouldn't have survived for more then a day....when the hen left the nest, she would have left that poor little guy behind. That's my opinion for good or bad. I'm sorry if it upsets some people...but I would have as humanely as possible put the chick out of its misery as soon as I found it.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I may have some bite my head off....but if it was my chick I would put it out of its misery, or have a vet do it. At the rate that they grow if it is intestines things are only going to get worse...if or more likely when infection sets in the chick will probably die a painful death. Something went truly wrong during the development in the egg....chances are that if the chick survived it would suffer from something else...it sounds cruel but if it had hatched in the nest in the outside world it wouldn't have survived for more then a day....when the hen left the nest, she would have left that poor little guy behind. That's my opinion for good or bad. I'm sorry if it upsets some people...but I would have as humanely as possible put the chick out of its misery as soon as I found it.

No, it's the realism to hatching. I think a good share would have opted for culling in this case. I'm the biggest bleeding heart there is, but I think even I would have had to consider a cull. It doesn't make anyone wrong or right, bad or good, and it's always good to hear perspectives.

 

[casportpony]

Looks like intestines to me. Prognosis is poor if it is intestines.

-Kathy

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I will definitely let y'all know the outcome. Thanks so much for all of your advice. I wish I could post a video. He is now walking around and chirping, he seems much less lethargic now.

I'm definitely curious as to how it played out with the chick. Any update???

 

[casportpony]

Here is a close up:


Blue = intestines
Pink = where the yolk attaches to the intestines
White = what's left of the yolk.








-Kathy

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Here is a close up:


Blue = intestines
Pink = where the yolk attaches to the intestines
White = what's left of the yolk.








-Kathy

That was what I thought. :-(

 

[casportpony]

@WalnutHill I just sent the picture to a local livestock vet. They told me to tie a string very tightly as close as I could to the abdomen, and then clip close to the string but leave enough room in case the string slipped. I sterilized some scissors, put on latex gloves and snipped it off. There was no blood when i cut, the bleeding has stopped. I assumed the vet knew what he was talking about, but now you have me second guessing

it's already done. He has been lethargic, but jumps up and flaps around when touched. When I started the procedure the chick jumped,but didn't seem like the snipping of whatever this is hurt him at all. I hope the vet was right. I am now officially freaking out

What saddens me is that the vet couldn't see that there were intestines outside the belly. Don't feel bad, I really don't think that anything would have saved this chick.

-Kathy

 

[WalnutHill]

What saddens me is that the vet couldn't see that there were intestines outside the belly. Don't feel bad, I really don't think that anything would have saved this chick.

-Kathy

I agree. Granted, a photo is not the best way to make a diagnosis, but I could see the intestinal involvement. Been there twice, succeeded once.