crossed beak

  1. Bird-Whisperer

    Crossed beaks and missing eyes

    Hi y'all! Yesterday I was at the local feedstore and noticed these 3 were separated from the rest of the chicks. The black one is always looking down (maybe a neck deformity?), one orange chick has a slightly misaligned beak and a malformed left eye, the other orange one has a very crossed beak...
  2. Chicken Newbie07

    Crossed beak | Scissor beak | Crooked beak

    How to care for a crossed beak chick?
  3. Phantom_k9

    Cleft Beak on Baby Chick

    He have been hatching our own chicks, and today I noticed that one of our chicks may have a cleft beak. The sweetheart is only a week old, and hasn’t had any trouble eating or drinking. While it doesn’t look too bad as of now,I know that this condition can become more difficult to deal with as...
  4. linsybird

    Is this cross beak?

    I just noticed one of my silkies has a weird beak. It doesn’t look like a lot of the pictures of cross beak I’ve seen, but I haven’t been able to find many pictures of mild cases. It looks like her beak is kind of curved to the right. It looks different than all the other chicks. It’s kind of...
  5. Quailberries

    10 day old crooked beak EE... is she going to be ok?

    We found that our 10-day-old-EE pullet, Mercy, had a crooked beak forming around a week ago. Since then, it’s gotten a lot worse visually, but it doesn’t seem to be taking a toll on her quality of life at all. She drinks fine, and though she tends to spend a little bit more time with food than...
  6. Jes78b

    When she has no fight left...

    Hawkeye aka Hula girl is my favorite girl. From the day I discovered her beak was a little different from her mates she did nothing but fight. She proved to me time after time I was wrong, she was a tough old bird, and she would fight for her life against all odds. I decided to trim the upper...
  7. C

    Baby Chick With Cross Beak

    I have a 4 week old White Crested Black Polish with a cross beak. She is the sweetest little thing and will always come to my hand when I put it in the brooder. We give her wet food mixed with Gerber baby food and we give her water with a dropper a few times per day. She acts pretty normal and...
  8. Nikkijo

    Crooked crossed beak treatment or help for a chick

    I hatched a chick recently with a slightly crooked beak and wanted to share this info . I hope it works and can help someone. Basically on a recently hatched chick or mild case it says that if the top crosses to right of the bottom beak apply pressure toward left and vise versa. Holding it for...
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