umbilical cord

So, my husband brought home two baby turkeys last night. I pulled what I thought was crusted poop, but my husband explained it was the umbilical cord. The baby bled quite a bit, and I feel horrible. My husband put pressure on it and stopped the bleeding. Nothing came out other than what I have...

I found the mother dead and a newly hatched chick on the ground. Please help!! I don't know what to do.

Hi this is our first time hatching eggs and we’ve had a couple issues one of the chicks came out like this She seems to be a pretty normal chick so far but I do worry if it’s normal especially since the side she was on of our incubator I think has some issues with ventilation that’s the side...

Hi there, I have mystery eggs that I’ve hatched in incubator. A duck that appears the same as the rest has hatched 2 days late. He has come out with a small red bulge on his bottom, a wing in the air, and odd behavior. He is curling up under the wing that’s in the air and tucking himself. He is...

Today is Day 20 of my incubation and I woke up this morning to a perky chick staring at me as I was refilling the incubator with water- it scared me because I was obviously not expecting that at 4 AM! That chick is doing well and I noticed at the same time that another egg had pipped! When I...

Hatched a day early due to excessive heat. Outside broody hen birth. 1 born 2 days early was dead before I found it.

Hello! I just had three silkies hatch yesterday morning and one had a hard time disconnecting from its egg due to the umbilical cord. Cord finally disconnected from the egg but I am afraid the chick gave itself a hernia. This chick was very active in the incubator and did not want to stop moving...

This baby was on day 28 of incubation and had an external pip. Our cat knocked our small incubator off of the counter and broke his shell quite a bit causing him to have some bleeding. I applied a very small amount of styptic powder to stop the bleeding. Then wrapped it in a damp paper towel to...

The soft egg in the picture is on the compost heap. One of my Burford Browns has been laying a small collection of strange eggs this week. She's still a pullet and it's winter here in England though she hasn't gone through a molt that ive noticed and im with them quite a lot. Her eyes have...

Hi everyone! We've hatched our first duck eggs on Monday. There was one which took longer, we thought originally it was dead but it pipped eventually. It ended on that, though, so we thought we'd help him out. The egg was very dry, we must have left too much humidity out when handling his...

My chick is 8 days old. It is smaller than the rest and can be very loud. He had feathers but not much. He has struggles with walking as the umbilical cord got wrapped around his leg bu I managed to pry it off so hopefully he will improve. Do you reckon that there is another issue because he...

hi everyone! we recently had a bunch of eggs hatch but one of the little guys was stuck in its shell. my boyfriend carefully picked the shell apart and got him out. at first he was stuck in a position where his legs were folded but eventually he was able to walk and hold himself up. we are now...

I can't tell exactly what's going on here. I assumed it was pasty butt but I've been trying to clean it for a few days and when I squeezed it between a wet wash cloth the chick yelped. I'm realizing that can see the vent quite a bit above this and maybe the umbilical stump is somehow involved...

I cant tell if it’s poop or the umbilical cord. it sticks out more than the rest of the chicks but it’s not as brown and clumpy as the poop I have cleaned off the other chicks. Anything helps!

We recently got a few Ameraucana chicks (currently around 4 days old.) We noticed how of these chicks was reluctant to move and stood away from the group. We brought her inside and discovered she had spraddle leg! When we were trying to put the hobbles on her legs I noticed how she had a bloated...

Hello all! I am a first time chicken tender. We got our day old chicks last Wednesday (they shipped Monday). We got 6 but 2 died in shipping so only have 4 now. So they are a week old now. I have one that came with her umbilical cord still on...she was a little more lethargic then the others too...

Hello guys, We did just our first incubator hatch and had 5 beauties. One of our birds hatched with a red/pink mass on its stomach, from reading these forums I believe it is an umbilical stump, there was no yolk, and now on day 5 it is hard and dry. We have been applying a small amount of...

So this keet hatched with the cord wrapped around it's body and I ended up having to cut it because it started to suffocating it. I cut it and it bled a bit but it's ok now. The only problem is that it looks so different than the umbilical cord I've seen before on chicks so I just want to make...

He just came completely out. He hatched on the narrow end of the egg. I actually didn't think he was gonna hatch at all bc his egg had some major bruising on the outside. When he hatched the inside of his egg was still bloody, not oozing blood, just a light coating, he has blood on him and his...