unabsorbed yolk

What is going on??? I have been hatching my own eggs for a few years. No issues. This year, despite fertility being almost 100%, and using three different incubators, I’m getting a 25% hatch (and survive) rate. Those that do survive appear perfectly normal. Embryos are dying within a few...

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...

Hey there my hen decided after hatching 6 of her eggs that she's going to be crazy now. Something went wrong with the other chick due today and it's yolk didn't absorb right and momma hen neglected it as well and it passed. She's breaking open the shells for the babies though before they are...

This is my first time hatching eggs and it has been an adventure. They were Ebay eggs, a second batch because the first was smashed in the mail. 2 of the 18 hatched and are doing well. My incubator was great. It maintained 45-50% humidity and 99-100.5° pretty much the entire incubation period...

Hey!! So today my baby chick hatched and I don’t think it absorbed the yolk fully. It’s not a lot left it’s just like a little bump on the navel and now it’s all dry. I’ve heard that this can happen and that it can either fall off by itself or you can cut it. I wonder if she/he is likely to...

Hi, so my duckling decided to come early it's day 25 decided to come out by day 23 today we had to help as was shrink wrapped, we left it in shell at bottom so yolk would absorb but this lil 1 is so eager to get out and succeeded but in doing so pulled her yolk sac back out that had been nearly...

I am absolutely beyond myself, I don’t know what to do, my hen has been on a clutch of 6 eggs and they have all started to hatch, the first one came out and had a bubble on its but/belly, then the second came and she crushed the third, the one with the bubble (faith), I have read and read and...

It appears that my broody hen "helped" two chicks hatch today by pecking their shells away after they creating the first external pip. This resulted in both having a partially unabsorbed yolk, one is a little bloody, and one has a head injury (probably from an accidental peck). They are...

One chick hatched very quickly on day 20 (yesterday) and came out with a large red ball on his/her back side area. This has now turned into a sort of red tail. It was bleeding but now it has stopped and turned into an almost dark red colour. He or she dragging it around behind them. What should...

A chick hatched this morning around 6am, and I immediately noticed that there seemed to be a good bit of yolk under her and something was bleeding- it was clear against the paper towel. Today is day 20. I then took it out of the incubator quickly and placed it back in its eggshell in a cup in a...

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...

Help I have a chick with a unabsorbed egg sac! It's a silkie and polish cross it has a sac on its stomach leaking egg yolk the chick is weak but sweet. Does anyone know anything to help please? What should I do?

We got a newborn chick on Sunday evening from a local breeder. It looked like it had unabsorbed egg that dried (first pic). Then today the dried part started to come off. I knew to keep an eye on it. I heard loud chirping and found a lot of yellow goo (yolk?). Pics of chick (sorry it's blurry)...

Hi everyone I just had 8 eggs hatch really well, a few different breeds. Then the last two to hatch had problems, although they did hatch on their own. The one I'm having trouble with seems to have not absorbed the yolk fully or something, she has a massive squishy abdomen with what looks like...

I went out last night to check on my broody and oh dear, she got off her nest and took already hatched babies to a different location. I found one baby with the yolk sack still attached, cold almost dead and another pipped egg cold almost dead. I got them straight into the incubator and looked...