I have a sick little chick!

[ChickenTender1988]

The sugar water seems to have perked it up. Still no balance though

 

[Rosypetals]

Pasty butt comes from the chick being dehydrated, so putting electrolytes in the water will help. Never pull of the stool, because it can tear skin, which will be painful for the chick. Sometimes chicks don’t have good balance, but that will go away, and it seems like your doing everything right

 

[junebuggena]

Pasty butt is caused by stress. There are many things that can stress a young chick. The most common sources of stress are overheating or chilling. Pics of your setup would be helpful.

 

[ChickenTender1988]

Update!
I gave him a couple rounds of the sugar water like a PP said and made sure he's close enough to food and the regular water. He wants to eat so that's good. And I just saw him take a few steps before he fell over so that's progress!

 

[Mechtel8989]

I've only had chickens for a week. All I can tell you are the things I've learned in that short amount of time. Been dealing with pasty butt with one chick. We have 6. The one with pasty butt would not lay down to sleep. We lowered the heat light a couple inches and the difference of 3°, from 87 now is 90, has changed her. She lays down now to sleep. She just seems a lot better

 

[CiscoChickens]

Update!
I gave him a couple rounds of the sugar water like a PP said and made sure he's close enough to food and the regular water. He wants to eat so that's good. And I just saw him take a few steps before he fell over so that's progress!

So glad it's working!

 

[ChickenTender1988]

Pasty butt is caused by stress. There are many things that can stress a young chick. The most common sources of stress are overheating or chilling. Pics of your setup would be helpful.

This is the only picture I have of the setup, right after I put them all in there.

 

[riorider]

Hopefully everything turns out alright! we had a couple of day-olds from the farm store- one seemed to have the same symptoms as yours but was past help. Best of luck and nice setup!

 

[junebuggena]

Could you move it so that only one end is heated? With the lamp in the middle, you're heating too much space. You only need one small area heated. The rest of the brooder should be as near room temp as possible. Plastic, high sided brooders tend to really absorb the heat producing an oven effect.

 

[ChickenTender1988]

Could you move it so that only one end is heated? With the lamp in the middle, you're heating too much space. You only need one small area heated. The rest of the brooder should be as near room temp as possible. Plastic, high sided brooders tend to really absorb the heat producing an oven effect.

Yes it is moved over to the side now. It's in the garage and I'm in Manitoba so it's still cold outside. Everyone is seemingly comfortable though. The lamp is on a pulley so it's been moved up to adjust the heat.