preforming "egg" surgery...UPDATE: it was suffocated by blood vessel.

[ChickadeeMom]

see this was a freak case. the chick could be completely fine now. i would feel good if i was you, you could have saved him, IMHO you did the right thing!!

 

[cmfarm]

I'm not sure I quite understand. The blood vessels are in the membrane, how could they rap around the chick?

 

[ChickadeeMom]

oh right...hmm weird. i didnt think about that. could it havew been the membrane itself? maybe it poked through and twisted it around himself?? im not sure just a thought

 

[gameboygal12]

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it was dead by the time I got it out of the shell. When I got it out of the egg, It's neck looks kinda funny and bulged out a little, The blood vessel was wrapped really tight around it's neck and foot. That's probably why it didn't pip... It's apparently been like that for a while because it's neck seemed to grow around the vessel..

 

[gameboygal12]

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It was shrink wrapped also so that's probably why...

 

[Stacykins]

Perhaps the umbilical was wrapped around it? It connects the chick to the vessels in the membrane that help the egg breathe by exchanging oxygen through the shell. An active chick could possibly get itself wrapped in the umbilical, just like some human babies.

 

[gameboygal12]

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It was very skinny and red, It looked an awful lot like a blood vessel, But I don't know what their umbilical cord looks like though.

 

[Stacykins]

The umbilical does have blood vessels in it, so it would likely be red. I've only seen the shed results from healthy chicks that are left behind in the spent shell, not what ones still attached to a dead chick look like. Did it connect to the chick's navel?

 

[gameboygal12]

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I didn't notice, but it was around it's foot too so it could have been connected to it's stomach

 

[BookWorm243]

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it was dead by the time I got it out of the shell. When I got it out of the egg, It's neck looks kinda funny and bulged out a little, The blood vessel was wrapped really tight around it's neck and foot. That's probably why it didn't pip... It's apparently been like that for a while because it's neck seemed to grow around the vessel..

I am sorry he didn't make it