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12:05 pm
February 25, 2009
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monica
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How do you keep the chick butts cleaned off? Sunday night I got three of them all clean only to have 5 of them pasty again. They don't like getting wet. And I don't think they appreciate the bath.
Thanks for any hints
Monica
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12:27 pm
February 25, 2009
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beeyourself
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Monica – Google (do a search on) "pasty butt". You'll get your answers there.
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1:15 pm
February 25, 2009
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monica
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beeyourself said:
Monica – Google (do a search on) “pasty butt”. You'll get your answers there.
Wow the miracle of online searches! From the many sites I went too, it seems that it should clear itself up in about a week. Thanks!
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2:06 pm
February 25, 2009
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GeorgiaZ
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Thats such a strange thing too. Of the 80 or so baby chicks I gotten, none have had that. And I have heard others that have it with every batch they get. Guess I was lucky!
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3:21 pm
February 25, 2009
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Leahld22
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Google pasty butts? Who'da thunk it possible?
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6:32 pm
February 25, 2009
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beeyourself
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monica said:
beeyourself said:
Monica – Google (do a search on) “pasty butt”. You'll get your answers there.
Wow the miracle of online searches! From the many sites I went too, it seems that it should clear itself up in about a week. Thanks!
Monica – keep them clean, or they'll get backed up and you'll have a toppled over chicken – that will soon stop breathing…
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9:38 pm
February 25, 2009
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monica, cayenne pepper in their food…keeps pasty butts clean… chickens don't have tastebuds like we do….it only keeps them healthy. I put ACV(apple cider vinegar) in their water as well. Good luck. I have cleaned a few butts before I found this out…washed and blowdried…lol My kids get quite a chuckle. I've had good luck with blueKote if they end up bleeding also. Good luck with your little ones.
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9:51 pm
February 25, 2009
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I have heard that cayenne also helps the hens to produce more eggs too. Havent tried it though.
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6:01 am
February 26, 2009
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Birdi said:
monica, cayenne pepper in their food…keeps pasty butts clean… chickens don't have tastebuds like we do….it only keeps them healthy. I put ACV(apple cider vinegar) in their water as well. Good luck. I have cleaned a few butts before I found this out…washed and blowdried…lol My kids get quite a chuckle. I've had good luck with blueKote if they end up bleeding also. Good luck with your little ones.
Birdi is this something you always do, before you even see the pasty butt? Do you keep feeding them this?
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4:14 pm
February 28, 2009
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CATRAY44
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You can use a little bit of olive or veg. oil on their hineys…. It helps keep it from hardening. Often the chicks are shipped with a sugar food for nurishment, which can cause the pasty bottom..
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6:50 pm
February 28, 2009
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beeyourself
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Monica said:
Okay. I got the poop off their butts. Thanks for the info!! They are all clean now.
They look like they are stretching out their legs and wings more. Does this mean they will start flying soon?
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9:54 pm
February 28, 2009
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Salamander
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I hope I don't have this problem when I hatch new chicks.
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7:47 am
March 1, 2009
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Amanda said:
I hope I don't have this problem when I hatch new chicks.
Don't worry, you probably will.
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10:59 am
March 1, 2009
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Salamander
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Gee Thanks! I'm sure you are right, atleast I can come here to see what to do.
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1:07 pm
April 11, 2009
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Sadie (Karen) said:
HI, My name is Karen , I live in Tennessee, at least the part that didnt get plowed over by a tornado. I recently bought six chicks. They are currently living on a large plastic tub in my bathroom. They will be six weeks old sometime in the next two weeks. At least all but one will be, she the runt, and my personal favorite. They have their wing feathers and some of their tail feathers. I am so ready for them to be outside, they are getting toooo big for their brooder box. I was hoping someone could tell me if I can put them outside in their new coop my husband and I built for them. Oh and before anyone worries, I have paper under the wood shavings and grit in the tub, I didnt want them to get spradle legged on me. It was the only thing I could find big enough to house them and still fit in the bathroom. I would welcome any advice. Im hopin to get fresh eggs from my chickies.
Thanks,
Karen
Please welcome Sadie aka Karen over at “Introduce Yourself”.
…and please answer her chick question here…there will be others that find this question very helpful! Calling all “new chick veterans”!
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1:39 pm
April 11, 2009
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monica
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 Welcome to Sadie!! This website is great for information about a WIDE range of topics for chickens, recipes, gardening, barn critters and laughs. Another website that I find tremendously helpful is FowlVision.com, and my personal fav: urbanhennery.com, and poultryhelp.com has a very nice explanation of how it starts and how to correct it. I am not good with hypertext so I am sure that someone can do the magic.
Our chicks are about the smae stage as yours and OOHHHHHH so ready to go outside, but the weather is not cooperating with the painting!  Can't hardly wait for the eggs 
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3:02 pm
April 11, 2009
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Hi Sadie –
I'm surely not an expert, but I do have a couple of dozen chickens and some guinea hens, too. How cold is it where you are? At six weeks old or so they are old enough to hold their own body heat, especially if they have some feathers. We had little ones last spring when our weather was still chilly at night but we transitioned them to the outdoors in a large dog carrier on our covered back porch. If you have access to a dog carrier you might try putting them outside in a sheltered area if the weather is nice, but if it's cold at night maybe bring them in while they get used to it. That's being really conservative. Around here the farmers just have the chicks at 6 weeks old in the henhouse, and our night temps are in the low 40's some nights. You will have to judge for yourself and just watch their reaction to the colder temps.
Hope that helps you decide.
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4:16 pm
April 11, 2009
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Sadie
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WV_Hills said:
Hi Sadie –
I'm surely not an expert, but I do have a couple of dozen chickens and some guinea hens, too. How cold is it where you are? At six weeks old or so they are old enough to hold their own body heat, especially if they have some feathers. We had little ones last spring when our weather was still chilly at night but we transitioned them to the outdoors in a large dog carrier on our covered back porch. If you have access to a dog carrier you might try putting them outside in a sheltered area if the weather is nice, but if it's cold at night maybe bring them in while they get used to it. That's being really conservative. Around here the farmers just have the chicks at 6 weeks old in the henhouse, and our night temps are in the low 40's some nights. You will have to judge for yourself and just watch their reaction to the colder temps.
Hope that helps you decide.
It gets in the forties at night here in Tennessee. I thought about hooking up a heatlamp to turn on at night. They have feathers on their backs as well as their wings. Their heads are still fuzz. They look like they are having a very bad hair day. Its been such a long time since Ive raised chickens, I was a teenager and they were my dad's. Im in my late 40's and my dad has past so I have no one to get help from. Ive had such fun doing this, even the trouble of constructing a coop has been fun. 
Any info I get is good info and more than I have on file in my head 
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9:52 pm
April 11, 2009
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I dont really know whats too cold, we hardly have too cold weather here for them. Besides, Bee says I raised mine to not have any manners and they run around nekkid!
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12:30 pm
April 16, 2009
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I have a new baby chick question myself. This is a situation new to me.
My silky/frizzles should be hatching in the next couple weeks or so. They are in the pen with the hens and 2 roosters. Should I worry about the roosters hurting them? I have plenty of room to divide them. I sold the cornish x chickens yesterday and now have more room. Also once they hop out of the nest, will they stay out? Or will I need to put them where they can get back in the nest? Ive never had babies WITH mamas before. I have always been the mama!
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