Stubborn Pasty Butt / GI Chick *PICS* Updated

[SourRoses]

I'm sorry it took all day because this chick successfully evaded my attempts to catch it. I would actually call it overactive, an out of the ordinary amount. It was constantly eating and drinking and running. 3/4 of the run I can reach into but it kept running where I couldn't and the others were up front mobbing me because they're really a friendly / curious breed.

Here are the pics I took before cleaning up so you can see how the poo is running and what it looks like. It smells so bad. The abdomen underneath is swollen which is new today. I tried to capture that in one picture. I was worried about putting pressure on it which is why I'm holding it so weird, plus it was bouncing around trying to escape.
I'm totally at a loss what to do.

 

[Dakota8472]

@MysteryChicken you got any input in that?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you have photos of the brooder?

It looks somewhat like vent gleet. Is her crop emptying overnight?

Quite young to be starting out with Gleet. Are you keeping water stationed cleaned and free of poop? Any feed getting moldy or wet?

I'd clean the vent with a mild diluted vinegar solution, then apply an anti-fungal cream (Miconazole, Clotrimazole) to the vent. Make sure the crop is emptying overnight.

See that the feed is not getting moldy, keep the water stations clean. I'd get some probiotics into her too.

Do the others have poor feather quality like this one?

 

[SourRoses]

Do you have photos of the brooder?

It looks somewhat like vent gleet. Is her crop emptying overnight?

Quite young to be starting out with Gleet. Are you keeping water stationed cleaned and free of poop? Any feed getting moldy or wet?

I'd clean the vent with a mild diluted vinegar solution, then apply an anti-fungal cream (Miconazole, Clotrimazole) to the vent. Make sure the crop is emptying overnight.

See that the feed is not getting moldy, keep the water stations clean. I'd get some probiotics into her too.

Do the others have poor feather quality like this one?

The others are healthy. It seems to have groomed its rear end feathers off.
Was there something else about the feathers you noticed? They are genetic hackle chicks.

They have two waters, one small standard chick waterer in the "coop" part of the brooder for overnight and a gallon size in the run they spend most of their day in.
I wash them every other day with soap because I'm kind of OCD and the Corid can leave behind an orange residue. In between the waters are rinsed and filled at noon before it gets hot so they can have a cool drink, and I redo the "coop" one before dark so they have fresh water overnight, the run water I dump out at night and fill only partly in the morning because I know I'll be back to it at noon. They've never been out of water and they are lifted on blocks so they don't get too messy, but sometimes poop happens.

Here's some pics of its siblings I took one week ago.
That reminds me, most of these were taken at 5 weeks old (the last two at 4) so the chicks are actually 6 weeks now. Oops!
Do you think something is off with their feathers? I've been feeding Flock Party brand Chick Starter with 22% protein, but I've never raised a "feather" breed before so I was really hoping that was sufficient.

Oh, and the feed hasn't gotten moldy or wet. It comes in 10lb plastic zipper bags and I keep them on my covered back porch. However, there was a post about a feed recall on here but when I called my TSC they said they couldn't see anything on the computer about it.

 

[SourRoses]

Probably the poor feathering on him is from him trying to preen off all the leaking.
I'd give him a good clean up and watch to see if he's actually able to poop a formed poop or if it's all leakage.

Two days ago there was a formed poop but yesterday and today its just continuous leakage.
I gently cleaned after the pics but by the time I got it back in the brooder there was more mess, yet no change in the vent appearance.

 

[Dakota8472]

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[Dakota8472]

Thanks a bunch for finding this for me!

For my state there is a fee, and adding that to overnight shipping sounds like a lot
I will talk to my family about it but I'm guessing its out of reach.

I hear ya. I hope your doing okay.

 

[Dakota8472]

Im no super expert yet, it didnt have this problem until the weather changed? how long has this been going on if its 5 weeks? its out of the broder on your porch? when was the transfer? I had 2 birds i had pasty butt on for 3 weeks in my first batch. I wiped them a couple times a day and just added electrolyte save a chick stuff to the water. I know stress adds to pasty butt, which i why i ask when they were transferred onto the porch.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Probably the poor feathering on him is from him trying to preen off all the leaking.
I'd give him a good clean up and watch to see if he's actually able to poop a formed poop or if it's all leakage.

 

[SourRoses]

Oh, and its crop is definitely emptying, when I was holding it, I could feel the bone. It acts like its starving, is constantly eating, and poo is just constantly running down. If there is a blockage it doesn't seem to be passing.