It’s a rite of passage for new chicken owners—thinking you’ve got the cozy brooder thing down, only to spot what looks suspiciously like a fluffy little bird sporting… well, let’s just call it a diaper malfunction Welcome to the glamorous world of “pasty bottom”—the poultry equivalent of a clogged pipe at the worst possible moment

What Exactly is Pasty Bottom?

Forget spa days and tail feather preening—“pasty bottom” happens when droppings get stuck to the downy fluff under a chick’s vent The technical name is “pasting up,” and while it’s not the kind