Cleaning a dirty butt.....

[WVduckchick]

Lay her on her side with a towel over her head and do the scissor trim.

 

[RUNuts]

LOVELY! I adore rose scented tushies. I'll look into Dr. Bonners. I'm looking for a scentless drought to appease my ticklish nose. Bonus if it works on fluffy butts too.
Thank you, oh so very much!

 

[Stayc]

Used water bath once to clean a poopy butt....DIS-gusting!!
Poop is gross enough when dry or semi dry..... getting it soaking wet?

i know poop just stinks!! But chicken poop more so when wet!!

 

[Clarity1210]

I've done this a few times too...similar to azygous's approach. The anticipation was worse than the doing...

 

[Chickassan]

Lol! Miss Doris is white. I tells ya, it's always the cotton balls that get the funkiest.

Since you got me thinking about "Miss Doris" and her poopy butt, I too finally did the trim. Trimming was necessary as there were some, how was it said earlier, dingle berries, on her rear.

The after trim below. You can see the reddish skin irritation below the vent from Doris' poop, which as I mentioned was watery and has been since last summer. One has to be careful when trimming to not trim too short or too much as the fluff down there is what acts as skin protection. If it wasn't winter I would have done soak method instead.

The good news is that while taking these pictures, I saw Doris go a solid poop and not the usual watery stuff, so I'm hoping her "diaper rash" will heal on its own without the need of treatment. The last pic is of my Orpington, "Miss Osage" who has the perfect rear. Her poop hits the fluffy feathers and bounces off onto the ground.

Who'd a thought I'd be taking pictures of the other end of my hens
Fun thread, and hope I didn't hijack it. Just wanted to add another experience with hens ends.

 

[achiekitty]

Not going to help with anyone's first poop removal but a little tip to make future removals easier. Dry shampoo, yep after you clean the poo dry shampoo the butt and nothing or nearly nothing sticks. Also if you can't do a full water bath you can use a spray bottle to cleanse the offending orifice. Get in there! Its just poop!

Spray bottle sounds good. I tried a hose spray and didn’t work. Probably better if I was holding her, because she just ran away, with a drippy wet butt. I gave her a bath once and she never relaxed and started freaking-out like she was being attacked.

 

[Jonidoodle]

Not going to help with anyone's first poop removal but a little tip to make future removals easier. Dry shampoo, yep after you clean the poo dry shampoo the butt and nothing or nearly nothing sticks. Also if you can't do a full water bath you can use a spray bottle to cleanse the offending orifice. Get in there! Its just poop!