That's what happened with one of mine. She had made it six days with nothing wrong at all. I came home from work and she was dead within 3 hours (and it was my favorite one too
) I was also very upset. I'm sorry you're going through it too. 
That's what happened with one of mine. She had made it six days with nothing wrong at all. I came home from work and she was dead within 3 hours (and it was my favorite one too
Could the breeder get you another porcelain one (perhaps one that doesn't have pasty butt) If the breeder is selling pasty butt chicks I wonder how good they are?
Well, it's not necessarily his fault. If it is a large scale thing it can be hard to manage all the babies. I had always heard that pasty butt usually comes from shipping stress though. If these birds were born at his facility I'm wondering why they're so stressed out. **To people who actually hatch out babies at home, do yours get pasty butt ever? Is it just a normal thing that happens no matter what you do?**
I paid $20 a chick, which is a tad high but they're so hard to find quality ones around my area. The parents are shown and he has very very nice stock. I will most definitely not purchase a pasty butt again, but the other that had it is 100% fine!! Eating drinking active etc.. I'm hoping he will be understanding and when his next batch hatches he will be willing to replace this baby. He really should of taken the pasty butts inside, cleaned them and then let me take them. But what's done is done. I definitely know he is busy because he said he works a full time job gets home at 6pm then cares for everyone. He easily has 150 adult chickens , not including the other breeds of birds, then he said he hatches every week or so 600 chicks. Including quail, Guinea, Turkey, Rhea, etc then all of the chickens he has also. He has goats, pigs, bunnies, horses, dogs lol like everything!
Rest in peace little one. No more suffering. You'll be tiny and cute forever.Baby is gone....
I've had a couple silkie chicks get pasty butt and I attributed it to their furry booties, these babes are kinda furry too but not like a silkie. Very valid question regarding pasty butt, I'm very curious now. He only had one porcelain so I got the baby knowing it had pasty butt, assuming I'd get chick home and fix it right on up.
Rest in peace little one. No more suffering. You'll be tiny and cute forever.
Nah, pasty butt isn't from the furriness. They might get a little poo streaked in there if they had a more wattery one, but it still wouldn't cake up and block the vent like true pasty butt.
Ah, I see. It was the only one available so you took it regardless. I don't necessarily think it was the pasty butt that made her die anyway. Probably just a weak chick with some kind of undetectable internal defect. Nothing that could have been done I'd imagine.
I should hope he'd be understanding considering she didn't even live 24 hours after leaving his facility. I'd be pretty pissed. Unless you killed her directly, which you obviously didn't, this is on him.
It sounds like he has a lot on his plate. Does he have any helpers at all? I don't really feel like one person can properly care for that many animals. I'm sorry. I'm open to having my mind changed, but this seems impossible to me.
Goodness. $20 a chick is a lot (my hatchery chicks were like $3.50 tops). But I admit, I was just telling my mom tonight that I'd happily pay $100+ per chick if scientists could create forever chicks that never grow up
Are you planning on showing them, or were you just hoping to get healthier birds by buying from breeder instead of a hatchery? Just curious. No judgement either way. I got 16 chicks mail order from a hatchery and only the one I told you about died. Everyone else is alive and well. I did have a pasty butt case on the other chick of the same breed (cropped up the same night as the other one dying) as the one that died, and the replacements I was sent looked kinda sickly, but I seem to have nursed them through it. They're growing like weeds. And now everyone gets a daily butt check. No more episodes.
Yeah, when I said I'd be pissed I meant I'd be pissed if he wouldn't give me a new baby. I wouldn't be pissed at all right now. Just really heartbroken. I want to know why my poor baby died as well. It's funny, because it doesn't change anything, but not knowing is just terrible. I had a baby hamster die of pneumonia, and I had no idea how she managed to get it. Vet said it could have been a million things. I've been so paranoid with my current one. I'm afraid to let her roam around much or get into anything because I'm afraid she'll inhale a little dust particle or something and die too. At least if I knew what caused the first one to die I'd know what to avoid.
