Baby Chick with a crooked beak, seemingly overnight...

[MisfitMarie]

I brought a couple black silkie chicks home two weeks ago. I've handled them every day, but today discovered that one of them has a crooked bottom jaw. I am rather concerned, as it seems to have developed literally overnight. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

My chicks are on starter feed and given lots of treats: scrambled eggs mostly. They have supplemented water (vitamins) and otherwise appear quite healthy.

I'm worried that it is going to get worse.

Any possibility of it correcting itself?

 

[sonjab314]

Sounds like scissor beak and no it will not correct itself. I had a silkie to that last year. About the only thing you can do is make sure you feed it crumbled food for the rest of its life and make sure its getting plenty to eat.