Chick with messy bottom?

[Fancy_Feathers]

Hello! So I just got chicks in the mail yesterday, and one chick arrived with pretty bad pasty butt. I cleaned it up and the chick is surprisingly doing really well! I checked all the other chicks and they don't look like they have pasty butt, but I noticed our Silkie chick has a super messy butt. I took her out and there was no droppings plugging her vent, there was just poop on all the feathers around the vent. When the chicks first arrived they seemed to have some diarrhea so maybe that is why it is so messy (their poop is now normal today). Should I clean the chick's bottom or trim the feathers around the vent? should I just leave the poop there? I am not sure what to do, but I for sure know it isn't pasty butt. Thanks!

 

[Cheese_Quackers]

Hello! So I just got chicks in the mail yesterday, and one chick arrived with pretty bad pasty butt. I cleaned it up and the chick is surprisingly doing really well! I checked all the other chicks and they don't look like they have pasty butt, but I noticed our Silkie chick has a super messy butt. I took her out and there was no droppings plugging her vent, there was just poop on all the feathers around the vent. When the chicks first arrived they seemed to have some diarrhea so maybe that is why it is so messy (their poop is now normal today). Should I clean the chick's bottom or trim the feathers around the vent? should I just leave the poop there? I am not sure what to do, but I for sure know it isn't pasty butt. Thanks!

Clean the chick, you do not want sicknesses or other things. Trim feathers if you cannot get the poo off.

 

[Fancy_Feathers]

Clean the chick, you do not want sicknesses or other things. Trim feathers if you cannot get the poo off.

thank for the reply! I will do that right away- should I add anything to the vent and around it to prevent poop from sticking again?

 

[Cheese_Quackers]

thank for the reply! I will do that right away- should I add anything to the vent and around it to prevent poop from sticking again?

It'll just end up happening. If their poo is back to normal, that shouldn't be a problem. They preen themselves.

 

[Fancy_Feathers]

It'll just end up happening. If their poo is back to normal, that shouldn't be a problem. They preen themselves.

Thank you for the advice! I will go clean the chick now, thank you!

 

[Cheese_Quackers]

You're welcome!! I hope the chick says safe!

 

[dragonfly2pilot]

If they all had strange poo when you first got them it was likely the merconium.

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

How is the pasty bums coming along. I'm fighting it as well. 5 day old chicks