What's pasty butt look like?

[FlyBnJ]

As I am new to the whole chicken world, I would "like" to see some pics of pasty butt so that I will recognize it if it happens to my chicks.

 

[Featherwisp]

I just got a book about chickens today, and saw a good example of pasty butt in it.
Here it is:

Pasty butt is basically a bunch of dried up poo clogging up its vent, making it unable to poop.

 

[cochinbantam-lover]

Quote:
What is the title of your book?

 

[Featherwisp]

Its called Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit by Sue Weaver. Its a pretty nifty and informative book with lots of good pictures.
Its small, about 138 pages long.

 

[cochinbantam-lover]

Thanks!

 

[astylishgirl]

I have a lot of chicks in the brooder right now and when I clean it, I check each chics rump. Sometimes though I will see a chick struggling to poop and then when I check his rump it is all pasty. So it seems to come on pretty fast as I clean the brooder every other day.

I just get a warm paper towel and wet it a little. Then I pull it off. A little fuzz comes off with it, but it gets the job done.

 

[marymac]

I have a RIR that seems to always have poopie on it, but she is full grown. Am I supposed to clean it's bucket or shouldn't she do this herself?

 

[FlyBnJ]

THanks alot for the photo. None of my chicks look like that thank goodness!!!!

This forum and the people on it are great! Thanks!

 

[Sumerr]

If you worried about getting it then just rub oil (olive, veggi doesn't matter whey type) on the bum, works like a charm

Does that really work? I just became the mother of 10 little fluffy butts and I'm worried that this will happen to them! Would coconut oil work?

 

[TexasDave]

I just got my first baby Rhode Island Reds last week, and I just lost one to pasty butt. I found her (at least I think it's a her) dead this morning. So, I got some paper towels and a bowl of warm water, and got to cleaning some babies' bungholes. Half were clean, a couple were really nasty, and the rest had big poops stuck to their down (is it called down on chickens?). I got them cleaned up, changed their bedding and made sure to handle them all a bit, since I read somewhere that it makes them friendlier to humans as they get older.