pasty butt

  1. K

    Chicken seemed lethargic and laid shell less egg

    My hens just started laying a couple weeks ago and everything has been fine although one unknown chicken laid a huge egg 2 days ago. Today I check on them and one seemed kind of lethargic so I brought her inside to cool off and check her over. Her bottom was dirty and it looked like she was...
  2. C

    Pasty butt or not?

    My baby chick has something stuck in his navel and it looks like poop, is this pasty butt or is he okay?
  3. tiawieclaw

    What qualifies as pasty butt and needing intervention?

    Hello! I apologize for the descriptive language, its a little gross but any advice helps 😭 Once a day I check all my chicks for pasty butt, it absolutely stresses them out and they chirp loudly no matter how gentle I try to be. I have some chicks that have minor poopy bits around their bum...
  4. C

    Pasty butt and possibly prolapsed vent?

    Hello everyone, I am urgently in need of an advice for one of my Polish chicks. I got it somedays ago and it developed pasty butt due to stress of the trip. I cleaned it up, but it had another poop sticked on it in the other night, which was super easy to clean as it probably just happeed to...
  5. J

    Pasty Butt Too Stuck!

    Hi everyone, First time owner here. We got our 3 chicks a couple days ago and I did not know what pasty butt was until I did some research yesterday. I noticed when we got them, one chick had a small amount of poop below her vent. It has built up to a big poop mound all collected under the vent...
  6. 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?
  7. 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...
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
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