Tre3hugger's adventures with keets

[Tre3hugger]

I will be raising them seperately, just at the same time. Thank you for the valuable input.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Cleaned out my brooder today. All 16 keets are still kicking but upon individual inspection today I found 2 pasty butts. Not bad considering the traveling they did. The 2 pasties did seem a bit smaller than the rest also. I cleaned them up with some warm water on paper towel. One of them actually released her bowels when I was doing it so I know she was cleared up for the moment. Then I left them seperated from the group on paper towel with my spare brooder plate so I could watch them. I couldn't see them poop because they were under the plate but there were poops under there. Hopefully it came from both of them. Will obviously continue to monitor. My first pasty butts! Poor little guys. Hoping they do fine.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Cleaned out my brooder today. All 16 keets are still kicking but upon individual inspection today I found 2 pasty butts. Not bad considering the traveling they did. The 2 pasties did seem a bit smaller than the rest also. I cleaned them up with some warm water on paper towel. One of them actually released her bowels when I was doing it so I know she was cleared up for the moment. Then I left them seperated from the group on paper towel with my spare brooder plate so I could watch them. I couldn't see them poop because they were under the plate but there were poops under there. Hopefully it came from both of them. Will obviously continue to monitor. My first pasty butts! Poor little guys. Hoping they do fine.

Good job catching that! I didn’t have pasty butts in our healthy clutches of home hatched keets, but we had some in a clutch that hatched from very contaminated eggs. I mostly took them into the bathroom sink and washed butts under lukewarm tap water, then dried with a paper towel and applied Vaseline in hopes the next poop wouldn’t stick. It was quite the process!