RAISING AWARENESS!! Please, everybody, do this! It will change tiny lives.❤️

[Tonyroo]

I never buy chicks at stores or hatcheries even though there's a clear impulse too. Lol. I only work with hatching eggs, just a preference.

But I totally understand your point there are quite a large pool of people buying them in stores.

Otherwise, I wouldn't see a new batch of chicks in the bins every couple of months.

 

[Silkie Princess]

I never buy chicks at stores or hatcheries even though there's a clear impulse too. Lol. I only work with hatching eggs, just a preference.

But I totally understand your point there are quite a large pool of people buying them in stores.

Otherwise, I wouldn't see a new batch of chicks in the bins every couple of months.

I too preffer hatching eggs more

 

[Forrnellie]

If you can do this, please, I beg you to.
It will make such a difference.
Most of you out there know what pasty butt is. I’ll recap:

Pasty butt happens when a baby chick’s poop becomes stuck to the down around their vents and dries into a cement-like lump. It will build up to try point where the chick can no longer expel poop and…you can guess. It’s painful and sad. And the chick dies.View attachment 2845848 And it happens all of the time in stores like TSC, Wilco, and other big brands that sell chicks. All of the time!
And they don’t treat it.
They don’t treat it!
They just toss the dead chicks in the trash and package up the living ones for money.

So many chicks die because the people responsible for them just don’t give a crap.
They don’t know or care that the tiny, innocent animals in their possession will die if their pasty butt is left untreated.
It makes me sick.
But this isn’t about me. This is about those tiny chicks in need.
Here’s the thing: Pasty butt is treatable.
Really very treatable.
So while the bimbos in the stores may not have a clue, us awesome members of BYC (woot!!) are so knowledgeable and amazing that we could easily treat it. I’ll even put a little tutorial in this thread.
So that is my big ask of you incredible people: The next time you walk into a feed store with the intention of purchasing chicks….ASK FOR THE ONES WITH PASTY BUTT.
I know it sounds crazy. Why would you buy the ones with an issue, when you want a healthy flock?

Here’s the thing: Most of the time, they are not sick at all. Think about it! If you had JUST been born and then were immediately stuffed into boxes, loaded onto a truck, and driven miles to a new place where people shoved you into a box full of other chicks and unfamiliar things…I have to say, I’d crap on myself too.
Often, incorrect temp is all it takes, too. Any little stressor that causes their poop to be looser than normal and BAM! Chick in danger.

It’s not their fault.
It’s not their fault that their tiny lives are immediately in jeopardy. View attachment 2845850They deserve a shot at life!
I have raised chicks that I rescued from stores where they were dying from pasty butt. They’ve all turned out amazing. Even the one I was sure wasn’t gonna make it.

So I beg of you, please, even if it’s just one chick…next time you walk through that feed store door, think of the chicks with pasty butt.
They deserve a chance.
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(Firefly, a chick with pasty butt from a Wilco store)
Thank you to anyone who is willing to try this!

I will post a tutorial on how to treat pasty butt in a little while.

Hi I have a incubator chick with pasty butt. I’ve search and cannot find your tutorial. I can google it but always like to get advice from the pros and not google. Thanks

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Hi I have a incubator chick with pasty butt. I’ve search and cannot find your tutorial. I can google it but always like to get advice from the pros and not google. Thanks

What you have to do is wet the poopy area with warm (not hot!) water. Take a damp clean cloth and as it loosens from the water, pull off the poop and clean the bum.

 

[Forrnellie]

What you have to do is wet the poopy area with warm (not hot!) water. Take a damp clean cloth and as it loosens from the water, pull off the poop and clean the bum.

Ok that’s what I did yesterday. Checked today and looks clean and when I wiped she pooped. I’ll keep an eye thanks.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Ok that’s what I did yesterday. Checked today and looks clean and when I wiped she pooped. I’ll keep an eye thanks.

Great!

 

[Forrnellie]

Great!

So little crash has pasty butt everyday. Couple times a day and I just keep cleaning it off. Any other tips to stop it. Crash is an incubator chick. Overall healthy in eyes and in eating and drinking habits. He was the lone survivor of the hatch. His buddies have taken him in and are about 2-3 days older. No picking, they all huddle and seem to get along.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

So little crash has pasty butt everyday. Couple times a day and I just keep cleaning it off. Any other tips to stop it. Crash is an incubator chick. Overall healthy in eyes and in eating and drinking habits. He was the lone survivor of the hatch. His buddies have taken him in and are about 2-3 days older. No picking, they all huddle and seem to get along.

I had a chick like that. She kept getting pasted.
It may mean he truly has something wrong. That there’s a cause for it.
Keep clearing it and let’s hope he recovers.

 

[Forrnellie]

Ok

 

[Forrnellie]

I had a chick like that. She kept getting pasted.
It may mean he truly has something wrong. That there’s a cause for it.
Keep clearing it and let’s hope he recovers.

I’ve given them all some electrolytes and probiotic water a few times. I’ll try that again too. Can’t hurt the others so I’ll try.