Beaker update

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm not an expert, but as long as it's eating and such, the chick should thrive. Don't euthanize it yet because there is a chance it will life a healthy life. I wouldn't suggest using the chick for breeding purposes though. People still don't know whether scissor-beak is congenital or hereditary, so better be safe than sorry when it comes to the next generation.

Bit late now, but sometimes it's not even genetic to pass down. Sometimes it's just an injury

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

Yes ive also heard can sometimes be an injury, but ive had enough easter egger chicks born with crossbeak to know they didnt all get injured. Ive researched "crossbeak genetics" in the past, but found no info. If anyone has any insight, would be very helpful to know!

 

[FortCluck]

Really odd that she suddenly died then, but i cant imagine how merely filing her beak caused her death. Thats a procedure that many others do to help their chicks, plus chickens survive Much more stress than a vet visit should cause. (And Many lucky sick chickens are taken to a vet, & they survive the visit.) Maybe it was just time for her sweet spunky little self to leave. ♥

The stress of it and the trauma of it can cause that. Birds are pretty delicate when it comes to that stuff. The vet even said that especially on a chick.

 

[FortCluck]

Yes ive also heard can sometimes be an injury, but ive had enough easter egger chicks born with crossbeak to know they didnt all get injured. Ive researched "crossbeak genetics" in the past, but found no info. If anyone has any insight, would be very helpful to know!

I’d give your chick mash and don’t touch it’s beak until it’s WAY older! I’m quite sure yours is genetic too. Mine was from Ideal and I’m not the only one with cross beak or a scissor beak Easter egger from them.

 

[FortCluck]

Yes ive also heard can sometimes be an injury, but ive had enough easter egger chicks born with crossbeak to know they didnt all get injured. Ive researched "crossbeak genetics" in the past, but found no info. If anyone has any insight, would be very helpful to know!

I would not have bred that Crossbeak if it did make it into my flock because I don’t want to introduce that genetic into my flock.

I am hoping that the other Easter Eggers I have do not have that genetic and have a different blood line. I want to cross these Easter Eggers with my polish deathlayer named Rumple. He’s gorgeous!

 

[aart]

Bit late now, but sometimes it's not even genetic to pass down. Sometimes it's just an injury

Or an incubation anomaly.
Crossbeak can indicate other abnormalities internally.

 

[SerrarGett]

Bit late now, but sometimes it's not even genetic to pass down. Sometimes it's just an injury

From what I know, scissor or cross beak can be the result of an injury, but there is a possibility of genetics being the issue.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

From what I know, scissor or cross beak can be the result of an injury, but there is a possibility of genetics being the issue.

I know. That's why I said sometimes.

 

[ackie]

It seems odd that Easter Eggers, which is just any mixed breed chicken that lays coloured eggs, would have such significant crossbeak problems though. Youd think it would be easy to breed out since you can introduce pretty much whatever bird you want into the line as long as eggs stay coloured.

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

I avoid hatching eggs laid by cross beak pullets/hens by putting them into in an older flock of layers i dont use for hatching. I might be tempted to blame Ideal hatchery for the issue, but another poster said that Cackle hatchery also acknowledges the issue within their easter eggers. Re my original Ideal easter eggers, i did get 4 accidental boys, even tho i ordered all pullets. I used 3 of those roos the first year the pullets sent broody. But since then i have crossed the easter eggers to MANY other breeds, to gain increase in egg sizes & more variety of feather colors. Ive outcrossed to isa browns, production reds, white leghorns, blue andalusians, blue australorps, blue wyandottes, cuckoo marans, welsummers, & other breeds too. And still, a cross beak chick ocassionally shows up. All chicks are hatched by broody hens only. As i said ive tried to find info on crossbeak genetics Many times in past before little Beakers thread came up. @aart has stated in this thread that cross beaks can have other internal abnormalities. I didnt know that, so will also research. Anyway, i guess no one yet knows