Duckysquacker
In the Brooder
- Apr 30, 2025
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Hello!
I am new to chickens and my chicks are roughly a week and a half old. They have been in a brooder with a heat lamp and shaved pine bedding. I check them twice a day for pasty butts and had issues the first couple days with a couple of the chicks and gave them a warm water soak and gentle cleaning, but no issues the last four days or so but have continued to check. One of my bantams seems to have a swollen or prolapsed vent this morning and has me worried. I gave her (pronouns are simply manifesting as idk the genders yet) a warm water soak, she didn't have a pasty butt though just the weird looking vent. She is eating and drinking and pooped on me while I was drying her and it looked normal. Any advice or experience with this would be greatly appreciated!
I am new to chickens and my chicks are roughly a week and a half old. They have been in a brooder with a heat lamp and shaved pine bedding. I check them twice a day for pasty butts and had issues the first couple days with a couple of the chicks and gave them a warm water soak and gentle cleaning, but no issues the last four days or so but have continued to check. One of my bantams seems to have a swollen or prolapsed vent this morning and has me worried. I gave her (pronouns are simply manifesting as idk the genders yet) a warm water soak, she didn't have a pasty butt though just the weird looking vent. She is eating and drinking and pooped on me while I was drying her and it looked normal. Any advice or experience with this would be greatly appreciated!
