Belly Buttons?

[Tangle777]

I have a rather silly question but do love birds have belly buttons? The reason I ask is because today a new baby was hatched...so cute...anyways, I was observing Jake and Kiwi tending to him/her...and I noticed Jake was pulling at something and I looked closely and it looks exactly like an umbilical cord coming out from the babies belly...what is this....? I never noticed it on the other two babies that hatched...:confused:

[dieflying]

Would make sense to me in some form, since the bird still has to have nutrients delivered to it in the egg, but I'm no expert by any means.

[HaleBoppPeachyluv]

can ya get a picture? i wanna see!

[Tangle777]

Well I tried to get the best pic I could, I really do not want to disturb them all that much...but as you can see in the pic there is a green cord like thing coming out where a belly button would be....and when he hatched out of the egg there was a long string of white goop between the cord like thing and the egg shell.....and this "Thing"(lol) is what Jake keeps trying to pull on.


http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg61/Tangle777/100_7653.jpg
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg61/Tangle777/100_7654.jpg

[thebubbleking]

omg to friggin cute!!!!!
I belive it is where they get thier nutrients from the yolk to cord to them but i dont know that much i am sure linda will chime in soon...omg how cute is that baby chicks tongue!!!!!