pasty butt?

[Dawn419]

Here's a picture of what pasty butt looks like so you'll know what to keep an eye out for:

Hope this helps!


Dawn

 

[Autumn Mama]

I just lost a 2 day old chick, possibly to pasty butt that I overlooked. After the chick died, I inspected, and it looked like such a small area covered in poop that I doubted that it was pasty butt, but when I felt the poop, it felt really hardened and was more extensive I think, than I could see. On young ones, it may be missed, so feel the vent area, as well as look. I wish I'd felt the mass, instead of just looking and concluding it was not that bad.

Any hardness at all, it may be best to remove it!

 

[firedove]

Also, a small amount of molasses in the water (enough to make it look like a weak tea) will help chicks recover from pasty butt and will not cause it. It helped my pasty butt chicks and didn't do anything to the healthy chicks except perk them up a bit because it is a type of sugar.

Like Autumn Mama said, it doesn't take a lot of poo to block them up!

chicklips you asked about the butt bare of fuzz, that is OK. It is normal for the fuzz to come off sometimes when you wash up pasty butt chicks. The ones I had that got pasted had completely bare butts, from all the times cleaning them, by the time they recovered. Their actual feathers will come in just fine when the time comes.

 

[aberfitch]

yea its hard to spot of you don't look for it. i have lost a couple to it so be on the lookout

 

[louloubean]

thank you so much for the picture dawn!

and i will do a butt check this morning to feel instead of just look!

awesome you guys, i love backyard chickens

 

[louloubean]

AH-HA!

i now know what? chicken butt!!

after dunking the first chick, i realized the string i first saw was a piece of umbilical cord!! i was looking at cruddy belly buttons, not butts!!!
i am so dumb....

so now all eight chicks are checked, clean, dry and warm. no pasty butt. yee ha

they are happy chicks, hanging out in the brief moments of sunshine we have today.

 

[aberfitch]

I just checked this morning also . I got some week old chicks. and found 5 pasty butts. Bad ones!! I was glad I came across this thread that made me check. another day or so and I would have had some dead chicks!

 

[Dawn419]

Quote:
You're so Welcome!

Dawn

 

[desertgirl]

I think one of my silkies may have pasty butt.I cleaned her up and was able to visualize the poop hole

...pasty butt is a problem because it occludes the hole?Should I try the mineral oil idea after being vigilant about keeping them clean? It is caused by wood shavings, so isn't contagious, right?

 

[desertgirl]

Just checked her again, cleaned her up (not as bad as before, but still looks a little wierd...).
Have mineral oil standing by....anyone use this?