Pasty Help

[jma6004]

Got 25 Cornish X Friday. Lost one on day two. Seems to have just gotten weak and died. Butt looked fine. I have a few who I am thinking may have pasty butt. I am cleaning them and they seem to be doing well. I think I may be over paranoid about pasty butt. If its dried on the down but vent is clear do I need to worry? Question two: I started cleaning a few and it just doesn't look right. Here's a picture:

Any suggestions?

 

[aggiemae]

The ammonia in the poop will burn a chicks delicate skin. Be very gently with the cleaning, Soak off poop with warm water. Don't rub or pull at the area at all. You don't need to get chick spotless just clear the vent. After it's clean put some A&D ointment or vit E oil on it to sooth, It will also keep poop from sticking so much.

Treat Pasty butt by improve the chicks gut flora. Add some active culture buttermilk (chicks like it better than yogurt) to the feed and some "save-a-chick" (and later ACV) to the water. I add 1/2 spoon of butter milk to a spoon of feed for each chick. I spoon around the outside of one of those round feeders and the dry feed will resume when the supplement feed is eaten. You can let the mixture dry out for a few hours and re-crumble it with your fingertips.

Make sure the brooder isn't to hot.. Keep raising the lamp until the chicks are dispersed around the whole brooder.

 

[ailron]

I have raised over 150 chicks in the last few months. I learned that boiled egg is the best cure for pasty butt and they love it. Just cut a boiled egg in half and lay it on the feeder. They will soon attack your hand when they see you coming with it! I used half a boiled egg per day for 30 chicks for a couple of days and then increased it to one. The extra protein in the egg seems to help stabilize their poop. Hope this helps.