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    Long hooked upper beak on Ameraucana chick

    Here is the same chicken 9 days later. Her lower beak is obviously deformed and small. I now agree that the upper beak is normal, but growing downwards because there is no lower beak to stop it. I think her tongue is in that big pouch beneath her lower beak, rather than in her mouth. I can see...
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    Long hooked upper beak on Ameraucana chick

    Could I just have the whole upper beak replaced with a prosthetic?
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    Long hooked upper beak on Ameraucana chick

    My three-week-old Ameraucana chick's upper beak is unusually long and hooked. She seems to have no problem eating, but she wheezes sometimes. She also seems much stupider than our other chick and spends hours pecking at the wall. I have read that Ameraucanas naturally have curved beaks, but...
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    Garage Coop

    I have two Brown Leghorn hens, and they are the biggest sissies in the world. Lillian and The Philosopher - too delicate to leave the house. They grew up in San Diego, where nightly lows never go south of 50 degrees. They loved their warm, sunny, always-summer backyard, and when I told them...
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