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Help! Some chicks haven't absorbed yolk sac entirely

mersiepoo
13 years ago

This is the first time it's happened, and it's not that omphalitis thing (infection), at least I don't think so. I've been having a very delayed long drawn out hatch this time, possibly due to temperature spikes in the incubator, or because the temperature was too high during the hatch. Anyway, the one keat was born with a tiny bit of something outside its body. I figured it was the yolk sac because I could see that chalzae thing sticking out at the end of it (at first I thought its intestines prolapsed out of its bum, but then I remembered it's too low for that.

So far I have another one that hasn't absorbed their sac, is there anything I can do? Also, could too high a temperature cause this early hatch and their sac not being absorbed? As I type this, I'm thinking that maybe the temperature was too high.

Anyone else had this happen? =:O

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