Nevadans?

[SunnyDawn]

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TMI, TMI!!!!

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I'm afraid pasty butts is just part of raising chicks. I expect you'll be doing that a few more times at least.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Too... much... cuteness!!!

 

[Bloomie]

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TMI, TMI!!!!

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I'm afraid pasty butts is just part of raising chicks. I expect you'll be doing that a few more times at least.

Ooookay, I'm fearin' what lies ahead

I mean beeehind.

Please tell me why, when and how.....I like bein' prepared.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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TMI, TMI!!!!

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I'm afraid pasty butts is just part of raising chicks. I expect you'll be doing that a few more times at least.

Ooookay, I'm fearin' what lies ahead

I mean beeehind.

Please tell me why, when and how.....I like bein' prepared.

It doesn't always happen but about 10-20% of the time new baby chicks (don't remember exactly how old around 1 week?) will get what is called pasty butt. They get constipated on the outside.

Anyway, they can die if it isn't cleaned off so you have to soak their butts in lukewarm water for a while, to soften the dried stuff, then work it off with whatever tool you choose (paper towel, popsicle stick, whatever). At the hatcheries they just yank it off, down and all, and the poor little things are left with a big bald spot on their butts. But it probably only hurts for a second or two! I admit when warm water doesn't do it I've resorted to bald butt tactics.

 

[evonne]

oooohh you're making a bator right now??? i have about 2 dozen eggs that are less than 5 days old.. lol...

oh wait.... i was going to unload some of these ones to hatch on the 22nd on you... you can't have any eggs right now.. lol....

j/k...

 

[vegaschick]

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Okay, the 'why' and 'when' first!

Well, these two are hens, not chicks, so it was a bit more complicated. One was given to me this summer
as a 5 mo. old (Jean) and the other (Rosie) I got off craigslist as a 3 yr. old. Jean had just started molting
when I got her. This is Jean, a Speckled Sussex, about 2 weeks ago.

Recently, after she was fully refeathered, I noticed Jean had some crusty, dried poo on her butt one day.
I thought it might fall off. It didn't and it soon began to accumulate so today we washed her really good
and clipped the feathers around her vent. She has never laid an egg for me but is now so red in the face
and comb she almost flashes. I've been including red pepper flakes/cayenne pepper powder in the mash
every few days to see if we could get things started & I hated the thought of all that poo in the way.

Rosie, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, arrived in horrible shape, underweight, molting & with a nasty, pasty,
super stinky bare butt.

This was Rosies 2nd full on bath. As her feathers grew in she was still kinda splatting poo so it looked like she
had dreads on her rear-end.

She is much better now (this was 2 weeks ago) but I guess I hadn't done
a good enough job the 1st time.

She's now been scrubbed, clipped and blow dried.

Her comb has been a dusky pink color though her wattles have really reddened up this past week and she
has become quite vocal, so I was really quite surprised when about an hour after her bath she got in a nest.
A first from what I've seen. When she got out, after about an hour, I was completely astonished to see ...
an egg.

She was the last one we expected to lay. There were at least four others that I had thought would
begin to lay before her. I texted a picture of the egg to my dad and had him guess who had laid it, he guessed
wrong of course and when I told him who it was ... he told me to bathe them all!

I think it's the peppers, not the bathing, that worked ... and that's not just self-preservation talking either!

As far as the 'how' goes ... I learned that here, on BYC, of course!

 

[Flowers of Abba]

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I love the rain too! It's really something we learn to appreciate living in Las Vegas. Especially when it's scented with creosote! SOOOOO glad we don't get snow! (wait, it DID snow twice last year....) But really, I HATE it. I had my fill growing up and while I think it's beautiful to look at I'm so glad I don't have to be out in it. So my heart goes out to all of you that are suffering through snowstorm after snowstorm...

Thanks vegaschick. We appreciate the sympathy. My poor chickens really hate it! Most of them still won't step foot outside the coop, poor things!

Rain? What's that?

Were at 6800 ft and I found out last year that my children did not understand how to use umbrellas!

The chickens eat the snow through the fence. We screw ply over the run and they can still run around even when surrounded with 6 feet of snow! i'll look for a picture. The ply goes bad in a few years, but it's so cheep, so who cares?

 

[Flowers of Abba]

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Speaking of...... We had originally thought that any meanies or excess roos would be for our table. But....

everyone seems to lose their appetite and the meal goes to waste. Are you open to receiving gifts for your table???

Were in South Lake Tahoe btw

 

[laceynoelle]

you guys are so strange.

 

[Penturner]

Hi folks, I am also in Reno. I live very close to UNR and was told that you cannot have chickens in town unless you are grandfathered in. I am at least suspecting the person that told me that may not have known what they where talking about. anyone got the scoop on city ordinances? I am looking to get a couple of Jungle Fowl and am building my aviary right now. have not been able to get anyone to confirm that Jungle Fowl are considered chickens so I am considering them an exotic bird until told otherwise.