Sponsored Post Oh, Baby! Preventing and Treating Pasting in Chicks

[inhiskeep]

After seeing the suggestion for ACV, and utilizing it, we have no more pasty butt! It worked like magic!

 

[fowlo]

thanks for all the good info.....apple cider vinegar is so good for so many things, I have had success with eradicating pasting also with ACV. after cleaning little bottoms first..

regards Fowlo

 

[fowlo]

Hi chicky lovers..... has anyone had this experience, a few months we had quite a bit if wet weather, and my hens were in dry soil under their coop, then out foraging in the mud.....then I noticed one the of hens seemed to be walking oddly...., looked closely, and they had mud balls on each toe, one would have been the size of a very small marble.....so each one had to be caught and the mud balls washed off...one I had to gently crush of her toe, with a pair of pliers..

have had poultry all my life, first time have ever seen this.....
regards.....Fowlo

 

[subhanalah]

Hi chicky lovers..... has anyone had this experience,  a few months we had quite a bit if wet weather, and my hens were in dry soil under their coop, then out foraging in the mud.....then I noticed one the of hens seemed to be walking oddly...., looked closely, and they had mud balls on each toe, one would have been the size of a very small marble.....so each one had to be caught and the mud balls washed off...one I had to gently crush of her toe, with a pair of pliers..

   have had poultry all my life, first time have ever seen this.....
                                                                                                                         regards.....Fowlo

I've read this is quite common. My silkie chick's get this from their fermented feed (little balls of food stuck to their claws)

 

[grammagretal]

we are truly a backyard little group...I had just one pasting, removed a few times, as you explained, then shortened her fuzz with a battery driven nosehair clipper...it worked...I feel confident the feathers will grow back

 

[fowlo]

thanks Subhanalah, I love Silkies, sweet little birds..

 

[Chickielady]

Can I use bag balm?

Actually, we use Preparation H, as it is not only soothing, and lubricative BUT NOT GREASY, it is an analeisic ( which means it stops pain), so it soothes the wee one's vent, as it contains anti-inflammatory.
Greasy, especially thick greasy stuff on chicks (like vaseline) glue their fluff down and collect debris like no body's business....like scads of straw & dirt.

It does not happen very often around here, with the hundreds of chicks we hatch here, but when it does, we sit the baby in a stitz bath a minute, then swap with a soft sponge reserved for pasty butt alone & sterilized afterwards.

My chicks are giving a bowl of grit in a shallow pan they must walk through to get to the feeder, and they peck at it, and eat it, and maybe 1 out of 50 will get a paste.
Chicks must have sand & tiny pebbles to digest their feed, and they must constantly be replaced as they are cast off with droppings.

Preparation H is also extremely good for BURNS, scrapes (on you or your animals) cuts, any wound that hurts !
(I would not use it in eyes though)
Because it has an analgesic in it...and emolients to soothe.

Next time you burn yourself cooking, or scrape a knee, try Preparation H on it, No Lie !

 

[inhiskeep]

Thanks for the tip! Actually, at the time they were only about a week old. I'd read from someone else that adding apple cider vinegar to their water would fix pasty butt, so I started doing that and it worked like magic!

 

[grammagretal]

thank you for the tips

 

[Chickielady]

Actually, we use Preparation H, as it is not only soothing, and lubricative BUT NOT GREASY, it is an analgesic ( which means it stops pain), so it soothes the wee one's vent, as it contains anti-inflammatory.
Greasy, especially thick greasy stuff on chicks (like vaseline) glue their fluff down and collect debris like no body's business....like scads of straw & dirt.

It does not happen very often around here, with the hundreds of chicks we hatch here, but when it does, we sit the baby in a stitz bath a minute, then swap with a soft sponge reserved for pasty butt alone & sterilized afterwards.

My chicks are giving a bowl of grit in a shallow pan they must walk through to get to the feeder, and they peck at it, and eat it, and maybe 1 out of 50 will get a paste.
Chicks must have sand & tiny pebbles to digest their feed, and they must constantly be replaced as they are cast off with droppings.

Preparation H is also extremely good for BURNS, scrapes (on you or your animals) cuts, any wound that hurts !
(I would not use it in eyes though)
Because it has an analgesic in it...and emolients to soothe.

Next time you burn yourself cooking, or scrape a knee, try Preparation H on it, No Lie !