I seem to be having the same situation as described initially with my silkie. My chics are roughly 3.5 weeks old. I was dealing with a bad pasty butt for a while with a couple but that seems to have cleared up now. We just recently noticed this. We take them out of the brooder for about 20...
Thank you for the advise. We put her (assuming) bottom in water last night and she looks much better today and her feathers seem to be looking back to normal
First time posting and not sure if this is the correct forum. We received our 6 silkies and for the first few days they all had really bad pasty butt. We quickly corrected what we were doing and stopped the medicated feed after 1 day and started on the probiotics about a week later. Most of them...
hello my wife and I recently got 6 silkie chickens. Neither of us have even raised chickens before so we are pretty excited. I am eager to learn from all the years of knowledge in the forum. I have attached a picture of our babies and their current brooder box home. We live in south middle...