Yep, pasty butt is an entity all to itself! I wondered last year with my first batch of chicks how in the world 22 chicks could have 120 butts! Life for days was a never-ending drudge of washing butts and oiling butts, then worrying whether I missed one somewhere! This year I did have two...
I'm from the opposite school, and I hate to confuse the issue. But like a lot of other people who have been at this game much longer than I have, I just can't see how a chick can build up any immunity if the opportunity isn't there. I brood my chicks outdoors in the run - I put an x-pen from my...