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Laree, did you complete your assignment?
I did. And I say:
and den?
Reason #945 NOT to help a chick out of a shell:
Crustache, my stucky chick from the easter hatch has always been noisy. I check for poopy butts daily, not poopy butt for Crustache.
Why not you ask? Because the darn thing has never pooped in 7 days. I just went out there, and the vent had swollen up, looked like an eyeball. but there was NO poop on the butt. The first poop must have gotten stuck and dried. Like a plug.
Like a poopy butt-plug.
That's right, I said it. Report me, I DARE YOU.
So I put Crusty under running water until it softened up, gently squeezed it, and it popped like I pimple. It made farty sounds at me...for a long time. 25 minutes later, I am still wiping/squeezing/coaxing/wiping/pushing chick poop out of Crustache's butt. It took ~10 papertowels: wipe, squeeze, wipe, fold, push, wipe, fold. There was a little pus, about halfway through the process, but clean(?) poo after that.
But, now Crushtache's vent looks like a vent, and not a bulging eyeball.
...and she's walking funny.
ETA: the things I do for my chickens distrubs even me.
