Yolk sac not fully absorbed

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

1. Hi i read thru your thread & it sounds like u have some good knowledge re the issue and what to do. I hope someone more knowledgeable than me will give u advice if there is something more u can do to help the chick. I didnt take the comment someone made above re "a similiar issue sometimes happens with assisted hatchings" (paraphrase) as accusing u of doing the same. But i know u r very stressed out over the chicks situation and am sorry. If no one offers more advice, keep reading and researching and see if can find more info to help your chick. Doing so is how ive eventually found almost all answers to my questions. And if issue doesnt resolve, keep posting updates and hopefully someone can help. Best wishes to both of u.​

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Just had another hatch the same way, at least this one is not near as bad as the first. Something must have happened during incubation. Time for research.

 

[RainbowHen]

Wow! What a wild ride. I am so happy the baby is doing ok and the abdomen is closing. I agree that with a second chick in a similar situation there is definitely something going on. Could be hen health/diet, could be incubation irregularities. I would be tempted to close the abdomen via an adhesive type suture but that is just me. I will be following along and sending all the good vibes I can muster. Best of luck!

 

[RainbowHen]

Can I ask what you are hatching?

 

[AussieSuze]

This happened to me during my first hatch, so I know how scary it is! My 2nd chick hatched day 21, with no assistance with what appeared to be a full unabsorbed yolk sac attached. Thankfully, there was no intestine involvement. We quickly taped some cardboard to the inside of the incubator to quarantine the chick in the corner it hatched. We then did some frantic searching for what to do. There are quite a lot of posts regarding this on this site. We determined there wasn’t much more we could do, except hope it absorbed the yolk overnight.
The next morning the sac was dried, but there was yolk smeared everywhere. The chick was half the size of the other chicks, and because we were unsure how much yolk it absorbed we fed the chick with a syringe. Thankfully there was a vent hole in the quarantined corner, so we could feed it without opening the incubator while the other chicks hatched.
Each day we went to sleep with our fingers crossed it would be alive the next day. After 5 days keeping it in the incubator, we washed it. It had too much smeared muck on it to fluff up. We also trimmed the dried sac, because it hadnt fallen off. Once fluffy we trimmed the umbilical cord/sac again, so it was disguised by the fluff. We then introduced it to the other chicks. It was tiny, but fit in with the others with no problem.
The chick is now a month old, the same size as the others. In fact you couldn’t tell it had any trouble in its early days. From what I’ve read we were lucky, because it could just as easily gone the other way.
Hopefully, this gives you some hope that your chick will be ok too. Good luck.

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Can I ask what you are hatching?

This is a rare breed mix. We had a power outage, and an unusual drop in humidity during this incubation, so I wouldn't be surprised if the research shows that these are some contributing factors.

 

[RainbowHen]

This is a rare breed mix. We had a power outage, and an unusual drop in humidity during this incubation, so I wouldn't be surprised if the research shows that these are some contributing factors.

Ah. That would make sense. Hoping for a good outcome!

 

[DallasChickyMomma]

Update: The first one, to worst of the two, looks pretty good, moving around great, clean vent, the hole is still open some, nothing hanging out, and dry. The second one who I thought was going to do better actually looks like it might have some problems. The hole is closed for the most part, but its rear is swollen, and it had the worst case of pasty butt I have ever seen. Cleaned it up and put him back, we will see. This has been the hatch from hell, and just tells me that I need a generator if I hatch out anymore chicks. I had one die in the shell last night, it was malpositioned, and I have another chick with a good sized hole in its egg, but it's slowed down progress significantly since last night. I can see it is still moving some and a chirp here and there, so I have hope that it will make more progress and hatch sometime today.

 

[RainbowHen]

Update: The first one, to worst of the two, looks pretty good, moving around great, clean vent, the hole is still open some, nothing hanging out, and dry. The second one who I thought was going to do better actually looks like it might have some problems. The hole is closed for the most part, but its rear is swollen, and it had the worst case of pasty butt I have ever seen. Cleaned it up and put him back, we will see. This has been the hatch from hell, and just tells me that I need a generator if I hatch out anymore chicks. I had one die in the shell last night, it was malpositioned, and I have another chick with a good sized hole in its egg, but it's slowed down progress significantly since last night. I can see it is still moving some and a chirp here and there, so I have hope that it will make more progress and hatch sometime today.

I am sorry that you are having such a hard time

 

[Banty crazy]

I wish you luck and I’m reading everything! I’m also in the process of incubating a rare breed and they are shipped eggs. I took four out Wednesday because they weren’t doing anything and my fingers are crossed for the others. I’ve only dealt with one chick with an unretracted yoke sack but because it was a very expensive chick, we took it to the vet. It was one of our hawk chicks. Lol I hope you’ll keep us updated!