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My chick, Fern, had a cross beak like that. She could barely get any food down as it got worse. We decided to help her live as long as her quality of life I felt was okay. But when she got weak and boney and frail and obviously had a bad quality of life, we put her down.

name: Sugar Cookie Gender: male color: white age: about 9 months (A few of these pictures were taken from a video recording of him, so I apologize about the lower image quality on some of them) A pretty (probably show-quality..?) roo personality: An arrogant softie who you can't help but love

You don't have to put it under. I would wrap its body in a towel so it can't flap and have another person help you hold it down on a table. Be firm holding its body, but obviously gentle around the head. Flush it out with saline, then do your best to apply the ointment like @sourland said...

Yes, you can apply the saline with an eye dropper or syringe that doesn't squirt too hard. Make sure the other birds don't pick at it, either.

she is!

I drew a picture of my lamb, Winnie!

(who else never got to be line leader as a kid? :lol: )

--I'm Line Leader! --I'll be door holder! --Aw rats I'm the caboose.

Egg :p

Perhaps some blood spots? Nothing big to worry about. Or maybe a bit of eggshell fell in.

If it looks like this: It's the chalazae, completely normal. :)

Thank you very much! I will try this. :)

.....literally! Normally, she's an angel. I raised my lamb, Winnie, by hand in the house the beginning of last summer after her mom rejected her. At the end of the summer we put her in the barn with the big sheep, and after months of bullying and exclusion, she is finally fairly settled in. The...

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We've got a silkie named Oreo who we are fairly certain has a vaulted skull. We got her as a chick last summer. She grew into a healthy young hen, and nothing was really wrong with her other than the fact the she was exceptionally dumb. But then she went broody over the winter and emerged from...

Whoa...that doesn't look good. I'd definitely say a vent prolapse.

Her beak is very overgrown. The top is curled around and the bottom is sticking out at such a bad angle (its almost horizontal) that even if we trimmed it, the beak would still not be aligned. It's a really severe case. She turns her head to stab at her food. I think she might be getting a bit...

I feel like routinely restraining her and putting a power tool next to her face would be more traumatic than gently drifting off to sleep. Here are some pics of her and her friend who is also a d’Uccle the same age as her so you can see the size difference

We've got a porcelain d'Uccle chick, about 8 weeks old (I think). She's got a cross-beak. She hasn't been getting enough to eat because of her deformity, and so she's much smaller than the other chicks. She seems active enough, but I know chickens like to mask their illnesses and her keel bone...

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