Pls help - How to clean poo on my baby chicks

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I guess it's just a personal preferance. As I had one die very quickly, I went the terramycine route. That's just me. I used it according to the directions and everything worked out fine. I had to use it one other time when we realized that one of our hens had been torn up by the spurs on a rooster while they were mating. She was a mess under her wings and we treated her for 10 days and she's just as healthy as can be.
 
Wow ... I guess this is why you have to read these forums with a grain of salt.

I find it hard to believe that people are actually saying that holding your chick and giving it a soak to remove crusted poop is torture. I had to do this on three chicks when I got them home from a half-hour drive picking them up (they weren't coming from the greatest living conditions, either) and the chicks literally fell asleep in my hand. Like another poster mentioned, their relief was palpable.

You can justify ripping the poop off your chick however you want but please don't say that handling your pets and providing sensitive care to them is torture.
 
There are different ways to do and I think we each have our way of doing it, as long as you can get it off without harming your baby then I'd say you got it.

Now what I do is get the chicks poopy butt moistened in a small bowl of some nice warm water then I kinda rub with my two fingers the poopy till it kinda crumbles loose then rinse off, and dry the little bottom.ut her back under heat lamp!
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Soaking is also very entertaining for my children...watching their Mom try to soak just the fuzzy butt of the chick. In our case the chicks do relax in the warm water.

Good Luck with your babies!
 
I Have had two baby chicken out of 40 have it on their butts and I soak it off then they still have this weird redish yellow thing on their butts and I try to soak it off then pull it off and I have mad both of them bleed a little under their butts? Could they be males and I am pulling on their balls? It seems very weird looking to my but I feel bad an don't want to be pulling something off I shouldn't be please help
 
CharityR said:
I Have had two baby chicken out of 40 have it on their butts and I soak it off then they still have this weird redish yellow thing on their butts and I try to soak it off then pull it off and I have mad both of them bleed a little under their butts? Could they be males and I am pulling on their balls? It seems very weird looking to my but I feel bad an don't want to be pulling something off I shouldn't be please help
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Cockerals don't have "balls", but those yellow red things could be their intestines. Or if it's attached to their stomachs, an umbilical hernia. If you have any neosporin type creams without pain reliever you can try to put that on there to dry it out. Others have mentioned things like Nustock, Blu-Kote, or even flour.
 
This is my first time with chicks. I only have 5 and 1 of them has had "pasty butt" everyday (they are one week old). I tried olive oil after the first two days and it didn't seem to help, so I've resorted to just cleaning her off every night. Does anyone know how long this phase can last???
Also, I've been using the "warm water and cloth" method and it seems to work well! Just a little more time consuming. I couldn't imagine just ripping it off, you can tell it's very sensitive!
 
landonjacob said:
This is my first time with chicks. I only have 5 and 1 of them has had "pasty butt" everyday (they are one week old). I tried olive oil after the first two days and it didn't seem to help, so I've resorted to just cleaning her off every night. Does anyone know how long this phase can last???
Also, I've been using the "warm water and cloth" method and it seems to work well! Just a little more time consuming. I couldn't imagine just ripping it off, you can tell it's very sensitive!
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It shouldn't go more than a couple of weeks. What they eat really can change the density of their droppings. I use fermented feed, which is not used much in our part of the US...so prepare for groans...but I've never had a regular healthy chick with any pasty butt symptoms. The one chick that had some poo on their rear was a helped chick who hatched with their yolk sac partially exposed. She healed well but had a dry yolk section sticking to her stomach and rear, which poo collected on, but it did not cover her vent. I used the same warm water soak method of removing the poo as you would with a pasty butt, but had to be extra careful since that area needed to heal well before coming off. She's almost three weeks old now and hopping, eating, and playing like a champ. Most of the dried yolk sac has fallen off and there is just a belly button sized piece left that will come off when it's ready.
 
Well the first idea i had was to use cotton balls or q-tips to clean my 3 day old bantams. They get stressed once you pluck the poop off. Use any wet substance and add on the q-tips or cotton balls.
 

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