Mag Citrate for chick’s pasty butt?

[ReeRee14]

I’ve lost two chicks to pasty butt and now it looks like another one is getting it. I tried to save the other too by patiently pouring warm water and dawn and rinsing it off but i think it was already too late.
I read you can add magnesium citrate to adult chickens water... see link below.

Have any of you given your baby chick’s magnesium citrate and if so what dosage?

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6ed0/4aa2721106d7362769fa805ae49b3daf640e.pdf

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Sorry you lost some, it is depressing.
I haven't had pasted vents since I started adding probiotics to chicks first water.
I use Gro2Max powder but in the interim, you can use plain yogurt or kefir with active cultures.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

I'm sorry you've lost chicks. How often do you check/clean? Have you checked the temp in the brooder at chick level?

The easiest way I've found for cleaning up pasty butt is getting a q-tip and warm water, dip the q-tip and dab it all over the poop and around it, then keep dipping it in water and twirling it along the build up. Seems to soften up much easier than anything else I've tried.

 

[Eggcessive]

I can’t recommend something like a strong cathartic like mag citrate for a chick or an adult chicken. Pasty butt is a symptom of shipping stress, dehydration, and possibly too much heat in the brooder. Treat the symptoms. Give more water, perhaps a few drops of molasses, or drops of olive oil in food. Try wet chick feed. Lube the vent and clean it daily if needed. I have never seen it last more than 10 days after hatch. Once one has it, they may have it the next day up till they don’t. Brooders need to be large enough where chicks can get to a cool spot. 90 degrees is plenty warm enough with a thermometer for a new chick under the heat lamp, and raise the lamp or change bulbs to decrease the temp 5 degrees a week.

 

[Fairview01]

Pasty butt is the result of incorrect environmental conditions for the chicks. It's origin is from mismanagement. Your brooder is either too hot, too cold or too crowded resulting in stress. The solution to prevent pasty butt is providing the correct environment - proper temperature, fresh feed and water always available with enough access so there isn't competition at the feeder/water and enough room so they can move to and away from the heat source.

Magnesium citrate will only worsen the problem by stressing the chicks even more with dehydration.

 

[Al Capon]

Molasses water mixed up to the color of tea will get them moving again.