Questions.....

[chickiemom08]

We have a newly hatched chick. It seems like it has blood around it's bottom. Is that from hatching or should I be worried?

Also this chick has a sibling that hatched 4 days and it's being mean to the new chick, like pecking it and jumping on it. Should I seperate them? How would I stop that?

Also is it normal for chicks from the same brood to hatch that far apart, even if the eggs were laid only a day apart?

 

[aart]

I'd take a close look at the 'bloody butt'.....tho hatching can be pretty gunky.
Note the difference between the vent and the umbilicus for the source of blood.
Late hatchers can often have umbilicus issues.
Are these hatching in an incubator of under a broody hen?

 

[chickiemom08]

What are the vent and the umbilicus?

They are in an incubator, but they are from the same hen.

 

[aart]

The vent is where the poop comes out.
The umbilicus is like the belly button, where it was attached to the yolk in the egg.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ven...chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=vent+and+umbilicus+on+chick

 

[chickiemom08]

There was no yolk on the stomach. I checked for that as soon as I saw it had hatched. I missed the whole thing because I was gone. I looked on the vent and I didn't see anything more that looked like blood. I guess it was from hatching.

 

[casportpony]

I did a picture of it

 

[chickiemom08]

That looks a little gross. Lol But I see what you mean. I hate that I missed the hatching. I was present for the last two. The first one died because it struggled for over 48 hours and never got past the pip. I assisted, but it only lived maybe 30 minutes to an hour. The second made the pip and zip, but had to be helped right at the end. It survived and is now 4 days old. This one did it entirely on it's own and I missed it.

 

[aart]

I did a picture of it

..and that is an 'open abdomen'......might close up, might not.
Definitely a risk for infection and/or pecking.

 

[casportpony]

..and that is an 'open abdomen'......might close up, might not.
Definitely a risk for infection and/or pecking.

That wasn't one of mine, so I don't know if it lived or not, but you're right, that is not the way they are supposed to look, though I have seen *much* worse.

 

[casportpony]

This might be a better example of what a healthy one should look like: