Rural Gardening: Brooder babies and more due soon!!, 0 by silkiechick

silkiechick wrote:
hard to tell who is what but this is a group shot a few r not in it. well the one wet looking in the pic is the splash showgirl the last out of the bator i thought was a cochin,lol i need light bulbs in there so i can see. not sure where the other blue one is, there is 2 blue ones. had to leave it wet had an emergancy with the other blue showgirl and may loose it.

all the babies have had closed bellies when i put them in the brooder and i fluffed them first but some had tiny litle umbicord threads still real short. but me being an idiot i left 2 bout 4 day old silkies in there well some how they pulled the little strings on it's belly cord or something. cuz i went to put that showgirl in and saw what looked like loose stools. i thought um they don't poo like that that quick so i got a tissue to look at it , saw yellow thought oh no it's yolk but everyone looked fine. then i saw the blue showgirl was flipping around like something bothering it and i picked it up there was stuff hanging from it, ugg!! looks like them older suckers got ahold of the umbicord threads and pulled it's yolk sack stretched thin like 3" long through a tiny little whole. uggg, i'm so mad and upset. the whole would have been fine in another half hour it just needed time for it to mend together it was already closed and he wasn't even in there very long. right when i went to pick him up the one older one tried stomping it. those 2 r now in another brooder with older ones.

the baby is fine but i don't know if it will make it and i don't have the heart to cull it, it's a showgirl but will if i have to to keep it from suffering. i had to cut the yolk but nothing leaked from it cuz i cut where dry but the whole is closeing with yolk still about an inch long and noway to get it back in. should i find something to tie the yolk off at belly and cut the rest, keep it clean and hope the sweetheart makes it? or should i cull it? usually a baby without the sac can't make it long enough to learn to eat on it's own and dies soon after but it looks like some of it is still good inside and baby is fine so far and back in hatcher. i have never had this happen before. i'd not have cut it but the yolk had bedding and poo on it and i didn't want to risk it getting infected or the sac to get pulled worse from tangleing in it's feet.

help!! what do i do now???