Why do all of my babies have pasty butt?!

[Fred's Hens]

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[t/m]

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1/2 tsp. X 4 = 2 tsp / gallon. Any other ideas (amounts) out there? You can maybe do a search and get some amounts. I'd do the yogurt too. Good luck and what cuties they are! We got
an EE from Meyer and she is beautiful!

 

[kari_dawn]

Thanks! I must have missed that reply

t/m what does your EE look like? What color are her eggs?

I have been giving the weakest two chicks a mixture of egg yolk and yogurt...I will put a small dish of yogurt in for them as well.

 

[Nonny]

I had one chick who kept getting pasty butt and after three days in a row of cleaning her off I took to her with nail scissors and trimmed off the down just below her vent and voila! No more problems.

 

[OvertheHenHouse]

Wow - they're really colorful! Love my EEs - they're the prettiest and friendliest chickens I have. One of my EEs started off yellow like yours and ended up looking wheaten. She's really beautiful - but also seemed to be the most fragile. She was more easily stressed than the others, did the mouth-breathing thing and was breathing hard for several days after I got her home. She's also the one whose eyes are bigger than her esophagus when it comes to food and tries to choke herself pretty much daily...

 

[kari_dawn]

I am really hoping for some beatiful wheaten-esq colors from those three...assuming my itty bitty makes it...

There are several others that are the typical brown chestnut chipmunk, and some that are kindof a dark mahogany chocolate color with very little white....I am torn between selling off the chestnut chicks, and hanging on to them until I see what color they are going to be

 

[Eggcessive]

This is really a hard time of year to ship chicks clear across the country even if you have 25 in a box for warmth. I imagine they have really been stressed due to the cold, and no wonder some die or have pasty butt. Hopefully you can get those little guys to make it. I got mine last year from Meyer, but they didn't come that far and they did well--in March and quite a bit warmer. MyPetChicken gets their chicks from Meyers and other hatcheries, by the way--they are a middleman.

 

[LiLRedCV]

All of my Iowa Blues had pasty butt. I'd have to soak their little bottoms and 'cuz it was so chilly out I also used my blow dryer to dry them! (imagine spending your Saturday night with your hubby blowing warm air up a chicken's butt

) Anyway, Googled a natural cure for it and found the ACV response here. Miracle of miracles! No more pasty butt as long as the ACV was in their water. If I missed a day or two? Pasty butt would return. Added the ACV again, pasty butt disappeared. To this day, I add ACV about every other refill to my flocks water.

 

[chickensinwasillaAK]

A simple solution I've found on the chicks is take a little olive oil and using a q tip spread a little around the vent.
It gets the down slick and the poo won't stick. ACV is another option but I've never used it, the olive oil has worked
for me every time I've had chicks. (shipped all the way to Alaska they all are stressed)

 

[kari_dawn]

that is why I went with Meyers this time...it was 62 dollars total to get these fifteen babies. It was like 100 plus for the same number from MPC...Maybe I should order more from Meyers to arrive in warmer weather to see if there is a difference...wait, quit giving me more reasons to get more babies you enabler you!