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Yes, it should be cooked. I mix cooked oatmeal with the yogurt, and sprinkle a bit of sea kelp on top. You could sprinkle some grower feed on top if you wish - good way to get them back being interested in eating.

Awe, poor thing. It's so hard to watch them go downhill. Have you offered her some yogurt, or cooked oatmeal? That's a treat that might her her interested in working harder to eat, and I think they can get it down easier than just free-flowing feed. I have a chicken with a severe crossbeak...

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this! I was looking through my Chicken Health Handbook, and there's a picture of a chick with a very long top beak and shorter bottom beak - picture says it's Rickets. It states it's the most common nutritional deficiency of growing birds. But, it says symptoms are...

Well, she could be at the feeder a lot because she's not getting enough. It's so very hard to tell. Let me share s tory about one of mine that I'm not proud of. My crossbeak was constantly at the feeder, so I thought she was getting enough - then one day I opened up the pophole door for them...

Well, you've got to do it slowly, for sure. I have a crossbeak chicken that I've cut off the end of her top beak. I do that with a pair of dog toenail clippers and I have styptic powder on hand just in case I nip the tissue and it bleeds. Honestly, IMO, if she's eating and drinking and of...

If she doesn't seem in any sort of distress, and is able to eat & drink, I see no reason to cull her - just my opinion. I'm sure it would be fine to eat her eggs once she begins laying. You could think about filing down her upper beak a bit if you think it would aid her in eating.

Let's hope that's the case! How did she do over the weekend?

Oh, you're more than welcome - I just wish I knew more about things such as this so I could give you some good advice. Perhaps someone else will come along soon with much better advice than I can give! Your chick sure is a cutie - hope everything goes well!!

Well, it's definitely not supposed to be there; hopefully, it's just a benign tumor. It seems like if it's growing, though, it may interrupt her ability to get food swallowed down, if it's also growing internally. I checked in my Chicken Health Handbook, and it sounds like the only treatment...

Can you get a picture from the front as well? That might help give folks more detail as well. How long has she had the growth, and does it seem to be getting bigger?