11th Annual Easter Hatch a Long 2020

[CluckNDoodle]

We have a scissor beak splash Ameraucana. The grandkids love her. We call her fiskars. She is separate from the other Ameraucanas because I don’t know if the scissor beak is genetic or an injury. I just trim her beak periodically.

I love that name for a scissor beak chicken!! That's so cute!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Baby's first real photo shoot. This little squirt has the stink-eye down pat already!!

"No more pictures!!"

 

[pennyJo1960]

That one is flat adorable @pipdzipdnreadytogo

 

[kelseyk]

Day 20.....still waiting on pips. Have not touched the eggs since they went into the hatcher and do not plan to unless they go late. I have more eggs to go into the hatcher on Wednesday/Thursday. Really hoping they get with it here soon! In the meantime, I candled the eggs from my chickens that I just set last Thursday (day 4 for them) and I have 3 that I am pretty sure are clear and 9 that are fertile and growing!

 

[ronott1]

Is there anything I can do to avoid it getting worse?

Not that I know of. If it does not get to bad, you can file the top or bottom to make them more even.

 

[ronott1]

I’m probably going to completely butcher this description, but I believe scissor beak is caused by the structure of the skull not being correct (due to incorrect incubation, vitamin deficiency of the parent flock, shipped eggs, frozen eggs, or random fluke) so as the skull plates grow it will continue to move and get worse until the chicken is done growing.

Nothing I have tried has ever worked to make it better, however some chickens do live quite normal lives with their deformity, with a bit of extra care on their owners part.

The one I had had odd bone shapes in the spine too.

It is most likely genetic

 

[The Golden Egg5]

So far, I have 4 chicks that have hatched, and I currently have 4 that have pipped! 3 that have hatched are female and there’s one male so far.

 

[FortCluck]

You are a hatchin' maCHINE, Ft Cluck!

They're too cute not to hatch

 

[Redhead Rae]

I LOVE my Premier 1 heater plate! It always does such a good job of drying off and fluffing my chicks up. This baby is a real cutie! Dark Cornish/White Cornish.

 

[Phillisy]

Baby pile I never realize how quickly they’re growing, until I pop a new batch of day olds in with them! The Cayuga are only 4 days old and the other WH are 8, but the size difference...