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Do any of you breed off your deformed chicks?

He doesnt seem to be in any pain, I think its just a genetic deformity but the orther chicks are definitely picking on him as they are 3 days older then him at this stage as he took so long getting out of the shell. He definitely seems to want to live and he is eating and drinking no...

Ye4ah, he has managed to make it out of the egg when it looked like he had no chance!! I am going to leave it a few days, maybe put him in an intergration pen beside the other chicks and make sure he is not in any sort of pen........hopefully the other chicks will accept him because I just don't...

I put him in with the other chicks and his fellow turkeys started pecking him (because unfortunately this breed is really quiet aggressive).

Yeah, the commitment I would have to make to it would be enormous..........but then I don't know if I am physically able to kill it.....its just not in my nature!

I would love to do that but would I be doing it just to make me feel better. What kind of quality of life is he going to have if he has to be seperated from all the other chicks and be left on his own most of the time??

Ok, I am still in the early stages of raising my first hatch of chicks and today I had a baby cross bred turkey hatch and he is deformed. It took AGES to come out of the shell (3 days overdue) and I was sure he was gonna be dead but he's alive and kicking. Only problem is that he seems to have...