Can anyone identify the breed of my surrogate mom/hen? She has yellow legs. She hatched out fertile eggs from a friend: one leghorn, one Americauna, and one sizzle or frizzle. It doesn't look like the feathers are growing backwards, but it's so incredibly cute, anyway!
Thanks Uniontown,
There are indeed chickens with much shorter upper beaks than Wee One's, so I feel better that she may be OK. The fact that it's getting shorter is alarming, but perhaps it's sloughing off the damaged part?
She and Big Twin came from a family operation, that seemed to be a...
I'm a newbie chicken owner, and got 2 Barred Rocks a couple of months ago. One (Big Twin) is big and robust, and the other (Wee One) is much smaller, and twitchier. I noticed when I got her that her upper beak was shorter then the lower one, and now it is much shorter. It seems to be eroding...