Pasty Butt!!! UGH!

[Mom 2em All]

two of my chicks from Mondays' hatch have pasty butt, the others are fine..I gave them a bath (stuck just their butts under the water faucet in the bathroom sink), and then put them back under their heat lamp.

I am going out of town in the early morning until Sunday night. If I make sure they are clean before I go, and check them just as soon as I get back- do you think that is relatively too short of a time for them to get nasty/ etc?? I am so stressed now.

I have to leave for work in about twenty minutes and won't be done until 5pm- can someone please post what I should get for them? I know Miss Prissy has talked about this before, but I can't find where.

I will go look again- and thanks in advance.

 

[MissPrissy]

When you clean them put some vaseline around the vent to keep the poo moving and not sticking. That really helps to keep then from getting blocked up.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Thanks Miss Prissy, and two threads down is the crusty bum thread- but in it I found, "if they are too cold" and "if they are too warm"....

Yesterday, my daughter had her bedroom window open, where the babies are and we were gone until evening. I kinda freaked out and told her to go shut it- it was chilly out. It is possible that they got chilled.

Im glad its just the two of them. Also, I bet the one bright yellow chick I have is going to be alpha-roo/hen...I plucked him up to check out its bottom and it pitched a fit. Then, once I put him back down he ran a couple steps- then came back and hit me with both feet-and fell on his back from his efforts. This at four days old.

 

[MissPrissy]

Better handle him a lot now and get that fiesty worked out of him. LOL

 

[imprimis]

This will probably not be a very accepted comment to most users here, but if it is not impeding their normal functions, it usually takes care of itself in a few days.......