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[BCollie]

Ron I'm trying to quote you but it won't let me. Thanks for the info, I will give the chick away as "free to good home", to someone who's willing to take care of him/her.

What do you all think of this? I hope this picture doesn't bother anyone, I apologize if it does. I came home from vacation to find this chick had a very bad case of pasty butt. I immediately removed the dried on poop with warm water, but the chick is not acting normal, and now it's rear end has swollen and looks like this. It did not look like this after I removed the dried on poop from it's vent. Is there anything I can do to help it? I'm leaving now to go pick up my dog and do a photoshoot but I will do anything I need to after I get home. What do you all think? Can the chick be saved/helped?

 

[ronott1]

Ron I'm trying to quote you but it won't let me. Thanks for the info, I will give the chick away as "free to good home", to someone who's willing to take care of him/her.

What do you all think of this? I hope this picture doesn't bother anyone, I apologize if it does. I came home from vacation to find this chick had a very bad case of pasty butt. I immediately removed the dried on poop with warm water, but the chick is not acting normal, and now it's rear end has swollen and looks like this. It did not look like this after I removed the dried on poop from it's vent. Is there anything I can do to help it? I'm leaving now to go pick up my dog and do a photoshoot but I will do anything I need to after I get home. What do you all think? Can the chick be saved/helped?

Spray the vent with vetricyn or blu kote and do the things you do for pasty butt--a bit of plain yogurt(keifer or etc.) a bit of scrambled eggs and some chick grit. Manna Pro sells small bags of chick grit and I buy it from the Tractor Store.

I would also give it some liquid vitamin, Poly vi Sol or one of the rooster booster, nutri drench or etc.

FYI, sometimes the stuff on the bottom is not poop. pulling can pull some of the insides out so you are never supposed to pull the poo off but wash it with a Q tip. Sometimes it is quite tedious but much safer for the chick.

Just to prepare you, sometimes there is nothing you can do and chicks will die in the first week. Just keep doing the best you can with it.

 

[chiqita]

Ron I'm trying to quote you but it won't let me. Thanks for the info, I will give the chick away as "free to good home", to someone who's willing to take care of him/her. What do you all think of this? I hope this picture doesn't bother anyone, I apologize if it does. I came home from vacation to find this chick had a very bad case of pasty butt. I immediately removed the dried on poop with warm water, but the chick is not acting normal, and now it's rear end has swollen and looks like this. It did not look like this after I removed the dried on poop from it's vent. Is there anything I can do to help it? I'm leaving now to go pick up my dog and do a photoshoot but I will do anything I need to after I get home. What do you all think? Can the chick be saved/helped?

Its backed up. You can try and get the poo out but itt likely toxic and not saveable.

 

[debs_flock]

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I agree on the genetics. It kind of depends on how bad it is. I had a cross-beak chick show up in one of my breeding groups. It was a pullet so I pulled her out and put her in with the layer pen. By the time she was a year old, it wasn't even noticeable. Of course I still would never use her to breed from, so she just adds to the breakfast basket. Her case was mild enough, it never caused her any trouble and I never had to trim it.

If you have one that needs trimming, you can usually snip it with nail clippers and file off the edge with an emery board or nail file. If the cross beak is too bad, they have trouble eating and then it's best to just put them in the freezer.

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I agree. It looks like she was pasted shut too long. You can try to work with her, but don't be surprised if she doesn't make it.

 

[TheKeeper]

The Partridrige Penedesencas are 85% or so color sexable at hatch. The Pita Pintas not so much but I am hoping.

I can tell more at 3 weeks or so with them. The three from my last hatch are 1 pullet and 2 cockerels.

I just hat the best time talking chicken with Lisa. She wound up with a pair of Partridge Penes and a couple of Amelias crossed back to parent one. They are a lot of Crele pene x Cream Legbar.

Aww, thanks. I had a great time visiting too. I figured I was getting the better side of the deal with all of your wonderful knowledge.
As cute as the pix are, they are 10x cuter in person, especially the Pita (Pocket) Pintas. So mellow & sweet.
I had a very unsuccessful chick grafting attempt. Silly hen was attacking the chicks. I had to set up a broody cage & I'll have to try and break the banty blue rosecomb AGAIN. She's sooooooo thin. Grrr...

 

[ronott1]

Aww, thanks. I had a great time visiting too. I figured I was getting the better side of the deal with all of your wonderful knowledge.
As cute as the pix are, they are 10x cuter in person, especially the Pita (Pocket) Pintas. So mellow & sweet.
I had a very unsuccessful chick grafting attempt. Silly hen was attacking the chicks. I had to set up a broody cage & I'll have to try and break the banty blue rosecomb AGAIN. She's sooooooo thin. Grrr...

She might accept them later tonight.

It is silly when they sit on eggs for weeks and then do not want the babies....

 

[ronott1]

My Hens have been laying very nice eggs lately. @TheKeeper saw them today so I figured I would get a picture of them.

I am so happy that they keep laying in the heat!

These are from the last two days:

 

[debs_flock]

My Hens have been laying very nice eggs lately. @TheKeeper saw them today so I figured I would get a picture of them.

I am so happy that they keep laying in the heat!

These are from the last two days:

Wow, lovely display of eggs. Because of the scattered nature of the photo, I can't really count them. How many hens do you have? There'd have to be at least thirty girls, not counting youngsters. I thought you were limited to six......

I won't tell.......

I know nothing...........

 

[SpringPeeper]

It can be so hard to see wounds on them because of all the feathers. I sure hope the rest will be OK. Have you tried trapping whatever it is?

Everyone else is still doing fine today, and the Buff Orpington pullet doesn't seem to be having any trouble, nice and lively when she got some scrambled egg.

I didn't try trapping it last night. I may borrow a live trap from my dad, but I can just about guarantee that even if there was a critter hanging around all I'd catch would be the cat ladies' cats. I don't *think* one of her cats did it, but I have been keeping a closer eye for them coming into our yard. I made my poor dogs spend most of the evening outside around the chicken pens, though I don't know that any of them would take on or even bark at an opossum or a raccoon.

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Chicken Farmers work is never done....

Oh, and surprise chicks.

DH does all the feeding and chores (I know, I'm spoiled) so I don't necessarily look in all the coops. I was out at the chickens this morning and heard the chick distress call. I started looking around to narrow down the sound and standing at the top of the ladder in the Icelandic coop were two chicks calling "Mommy, come and save us!" I went into the coop to be the surrogate mommy and they ran down the ladder. That would have been fine until they poked through the fence next door into the Orpington pen where they got pecked. I saved them from them from there, then they ran next door in with the Cochins. Fortunately the behemoths in there ignored them. Then they ran through the next wire in with the Longcrowers, who also ignored them. They are now in a bin in the back bedroom with the call duckling that hatched a few days ago. I'll have to set something up for them with their mom.

Then I looked in the bantam BR coop, there are SIX broodies in various places on the coop floor, each with a huge pile of eggs!

The bantam black rock chicks are still happily cruising around the pen with dad, mom and aunt.

Dang chickens (or DH for not taking eggs away from broodies)!

LOL!!!! That's one thing I don't have to worry about with no roosters around

@TheKeeper

is coming to pick up a couple of pullets today from yesterdays hatch so I snapped a couple of pictures before they go to their new place.







I think I have more pullets this time from the Pita Pintas. That is good news!

They are adorable!

What causes scissor beak? My golden EE or TJ's(who knows what is) chick was fine when I left it at 3 days old. Came back from vacation today a week later and it has scissor beak.

Quote: I had one that pecked the eyes on one chick and it dies, but I don't think I let her be broody long enough...

My Hens have been laying very nice eggs lately. @TheKeeper saw them today so I figured I would get a picture of them.

I am so happy that they keep laying in the heat!

These are from the last two days:

Wow...that's a lot of eggs!