Yellow thing stuck on chick's vent (emergency)

[RoiKuro]

this chick (day old, assisted hatch) has a kind of bloody yellow thing stuck on its vent. It hasn't fluffed up yet but when I try to pull it out with tweezers, it brings along a long tube. I don't want to pull out it's inside parts so I just left it there but what should I do now? It has been there since it got out of the egg. Dried up yolk maybe?

 

[Smileybans]

Are you sure that’s the vent and not the bellybutton? If it’s dried yolk, and the bellybutton, then leave it be. If it has a herniated umbilical sometimes it’ll dry up and the chick will be fine. Other times they won’t be. I find that sometimes wrapping the chick in a warm damp towel helps. But if the chick has been out of the egg for awhile it might be better to let it heal on its own.

 

[Duckpooper]

View attachment 2696414this chick (day old, assisted hatch) has a kind of bloody yellow thing stuck on its vent. It hasn't fluffed up yet but when I try to pull it out with tweezers, it brings along a long tube. I don't want to pull out it's inside parts so I just left it there but what should I do now? It has been there since it got out of the egg. Dried up yolk maybe?

I think it might just be an umbilical cord or dried yolk? I had a similar thing happen to one of my ducklings and it went away on its own a few days later

 

[RoiKuro]

I think it might just be an umbilical cord or dried yolk? I had a similar thing happen to one of my ducklings and it went away on its own a few days later

If it is the vent, will it be able to defecate?

 

[PippinTheChicken]

If it is the vent, will it be able to defecate?

It will most likely dry up and fall off/get pushed out by poop