Pasty Butt from Hatch

[ChelsisChooks]

A Black Copper Marans chick I hatched has had Pasty Butt from day 1. They are now 8 days old. The rest of the hatch (12) are all growing and thriving with no issues.

I have been cleaning up Little Sport (BCM with pasty butt) 3x a day but it is still almost the same size as day 1. I finally seperated it because I’m worried the size difference is become to great. For all it isn’t growing and can’t grt rid of pasty butt it seems otherwise plucky.

I have it on stress-aid and medicated starter crumble. Previous to stress aid I had added ACV (with mother) to water.

I know the likely outcome for Little Sport isn’t great but I will keep plugging away (pardon the pun) it turns the corner or not.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Sounds like it may be what I've read "failure to thrive" ... Could we get some pictures?

I do ACV w/Mother in the water for chicks as well as fermenting the feed. Try making a mash with it's feed, the consistency of oatmeal. Not sure what the Stress Aid contains but you could also try some Nutri Drench.

Keep cleaning the pasty butt, warm water & Qtip works, you may want to try putting some coconut oil or vaseline on the vent area to help poop from sticking to down.

 

[chickens really]

I just leave with Momma and sounds like it's not well internally. Momma knows when it's not right and will dispatch it if too far gone.

 

[ChelsisChooks]

 

[chickens really]

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Definitely something is wrong with that baby.

 

[Essentiallyokanaganmom]

FWIW I'm no chicken expert (just got our first chicks in May) but we had one that had pasty butt all the time and was growing way slower, a runt it seemed, we just kept cleaning her up and by 3 weeks her butt no longer needed wiping and by 5 weeks she was the same size as her siblings. We didn't do anything special for her other then wipe her butt all the time. Now at 7 weeks it's impossible to tell which one she was.

 

[ChelsisChooks]

FWIW I'm no chicken expert (just got our first chicks in May) but we had one that had pasty butt all the time and was growing way slower, a runt it seemed, we just kept cleaning her up and by 3 weeks her butt no longer needed wiping and by 5 weeks she was the same size as her siblings. We didn't do anything special for her other then wipe her butt all the time. Now at 7 weeks it's impossible to tell which one she was.[/QUOT

I didn’t have much hope at all. But I will
Keep wiping