pasty butt

  1. SFrey369

    Do Austrolorps/Amaracaunas usually have poopy butts?

    We have two Easter egger hens (mix of amaurcana, australorp, and possibly buff orpington) with a lot of fecal matter below their vent (not on). I think their feathers are catching it. Is this normal or something to worry about? Should I trim their butt feathers?
  2. K

    Best Chick Feed

    So my chicks will be 2 weeks old tomorrow and it’s time for me to get a new bag of chick food. I have Easter eggers, bantams, and a Partridge Cochin. I used the Dumor chick feed but I think it’s upsetting their stomachs. My Easters have been fine but my bantams and my Cochin have battled pasty...
  3. L

    Is this a blocked vent?

    My chick has a swollen bum and is balding around her vent. Is this a poop blockage? If so, how do I help her? I soaked her bum in warm water, but I’m afraid to try and expel anything in case it’s nothing. She’s acting fine, and doesn’t look uncomfortable.
  4. Vexys

    Light Brahma's and Pasty Butt

    All 3 had it and one of our Rhode island pullets, no one was in distress but now I am worrying. I inspected all of them so for 4/10 chicks to have it seems like we're more or less ok. No distress or sluggish behavior, unless we count not being too happy when they were getting cleaned. But now...
  5. B

    Pasty Butt or Dried Umbilical Cord? Please Help!

    One of our chicks has a hard/ dry lump and it does not look like her vent/ butt. We think we can see her vent under her tail and this is below it. We are thinking it’s possibly part of her umbilical cord, but want to make sure it’s not pasty butt! We are new at this, so any advice would be a...
  6. H

    Need help with recurrent pasty butt

    So we are new to chicks. I have one chick, upon our twice daily butt inspection, that has a sever build up of pasty butt. After a few days of this, I notice she has an appendage/ feather over her vent and her vent is really small compared to the others in the flock. This last cleansing I did...
  7. Y

    Silkie chicken grooming & bathing butts & feet

    Wanted to share a great natural bristle brush I found for bathing my silkies and keeping their beards, butts & feet clean, without damaging their delicate feathers. The bristles are made of natural wool & super soft, but stiff enough to clean. There actually a facial brush for people but perfect...
  8. M

    Does this chick look sick? Vent Gleet?

    Hello everyone! I’m new to raising chicks myself, but I’ve grown up around chicks so when one of my babies started getting pasty butt, I treated it with warm water like I was taught. A few of my chicks had pasty butt as well, and after being cleaned once or twice, it resolved itself. This one...
  9. D

    Help with a Baby silkie chick

    My broody hen was sitting on some eggs that didn't hatch so I got some baby chicks. Born June 27th. One of them did not look well from the first day we got it. It wasn't moving much/ drinking or eating. I gave it some sugar water and cooked egg yolk and it took it. Fast forward it still alive...
  10. HannahGillie

    15 week old Pullet not gaining weight or growing like rest of flock, what can I do?

    Hi everyone, I posted a thread a few weeks ago about dealing with some respiratory issues with a few of my bantam Cochin pullets, and the good news is they have gotten better from that. Two of them are totally back to normal and are back with the rest of the flock after being treated with...
  11. Lars Peter

    One lonely hen left. And she might be sick :(

    Hi again, We have lost Tove, our 6 year old French Copper Maran. Now, only 5 years old Tonny is left: (Me and Tonny in the garden) Now, it might be hypokonder, since we just had to deal with a very sick Tove, but sometimes the tip of her comb turns sliiightly purple, and it also seems slightly...
  12. M

    Silkie chick with pasty butt and twitching

    I have three silkie chicks I’ve had them for about three days. Last night I noticed our chick, named Wednesday, was twitching her head more than the others do. This morning she had extreme pasty butt. I cleaned her and she had extreme pasty butt again about an hour later. Like rock hard and...
  13. M

    Starting chickens, with a disaster

    Hi, I'm Molly, totally new to chicken husbandry. Here's my tldr; intro to this forum: I have some acreage in New York and am making a closed loop growing system on my land. Chickens seem like the best way to get hot compostable manure on site, so I ordered 8 buff orps from McMurray back in Nov...
  14. Strong Bad

    Pasty Butt vs a Little Poop on the Behind

    Hello! I’m in love with love with my baby chicks. They came through the mail Friday morning & are doing super well. They are so curious, stinkin’ adorable & plain silly! Been having so much fun!! I had two definite pasty butts on Saturday and another one today. But there’s a few with just a...
  15. L

    Sick Brahma

    Our boy whom we only recently got has been “sick” for the past 5 days…only three short days after bringing him home. I’m scared he’s not going to make it and I need him to 🥺 He started sounding like a snoring man on the third day with our girls (he is a 9 months-1year old Roo). My husband and I...
  16. S

    Pasty butt- Silkies

    I have 5 silkies chicks that I bought from Rural King last Friday. I’m guessing they were a few days old when I’ve purchased them. Anyways, they have all had pasty butt nearly every day. It’s not super bad, but I’ve been having to clean their little butts twice a day. Some of them have crushed...
  17. Brehchickens

    First Time Backyard Chicken Owner - We got our first eggs!

    I have been lurking on this site for a couple of months but have never posted. This time I would like to share my first experience of owning chickens. I bought 6 Delaware chicks from Tractor Supply in the first week of August without prior knowledge. My first worrisome encounter were pasty...
    • Brehchickens
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    • baby chicks delaware chick delaware hen first eggs first time chicken owner layer feed pullet feed no eggs laying pasty butt when will chickens lay winter laying
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying
  18. BrahmasMama02

    Chick death (4 days old)

    sadly one of our Maran chicks passed away tonight :( We checked on them tonight after a day of being out and saw that one was acting emaciated. We gave her some sugar water and got her warm. Checked her bum and realized that she had pasty butt! (We had previously checked all of them ) We gently...
  19. M

    help with recurrent pasty butt

    We have our queen of the flock, dorothy a barred rock that is coming up on 3 years old. This year she has dealt with pasty butt and we can’t get it resolved. Its been a rollercoaster it seems gone then comes back. Ive bathed her twice and tried yeast infection cream on her vent but she finds the...
  20. M

    5 day old chicks sleeping away from heat plate

    My chicks are 5 days old today. Yesterday, I noticed a couple sleeping away from the heat plate but would eventually go in and out. Today when checking in on them on the camera I noticed they started sleeping on the opposite side of the brooder away from the heat plate in a big pile on top of...
    • MountHelen
    • Thread
    • advice baby chick behavior brooder cold chick heat plate pasty butt temperature
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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