Breeding Aseels

[Danish aseels]

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I’ve never seen a chicken with a crooked beak before, but a little googling indicates it happens sometimes. The upper beak is much larger and more curved than the lower beak and the lower beak is undersized. The upper beak is bent slightly to the right. Too bad, this one is otherwise my favorite. Hopefully it won’t get any worse. Anything I need to do to fix it now or do I have to let nature take its course? It would actually be a cool mutation if it stays like it is and doesn’t become more crooked.

Just keep trimming it to stop it from growing too long. It will be fine. Noting to worry about if he is drinking and eating without difficulty

 

[Danish aseels]

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I’ve never seen a chicken with a crooked beak before, but a little googling indicates it happens sometimes. The upper beak is much larger and more curved than the lower beak and the lower beak is undersized. The upper beak is bent slightly to the right. Too bad, this one is otherwise my favorite. Hopefully it won’t get any worse. Anything I need to do to fix it now or do I have to let nature take its course? It would actually be a cool mutation if it stays like it is and doesn’t become more crooked.

What type of aseel is this?

 

[centrarchid]

Will you breed them to each other?

No. The two best pullets will be retained for breeding back to their father next year. Remaining pullets will be at digression of party that gifted me the hen. Hen will go back to gifter if he wants her. Any stags showing good looks for show will be kept although no more than two. Those stags will be made available for college students enrolled in our animal science program to use at poultry shows. Remaining stags will be at discretion of my brother.

At some point a couple of quality pure Rampur Reeza Aseels will be acquired. They will be bred to best stags produced by this seasons pullets and their dad roughly 2 years from now. By that time the Aseels will be better than 98% Aseel and have been selected to look 100%.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

What type of aseel is this?

Sonatol.

 

[centrarchid]

We are up to 4 eggs in the current clutch. I can let the hen and and stag out for about 2 hours each day and they stay away from the penned American Games and even the American Game hen with two chicks. I bet we do not even get to end of week before she sets clutch to start incubation. I hope to get number of young birds up to 10 going into fall.

Neither is Aseel appears real good at catching insects. They are decidedly slow about it. The stag does not do much in the way of tid-bitting for hen although they do feed real tight. They are every bit as good as my games at finding feed buckets and knocking them over to pillage.

 

[bradymars]

This is major fault and this individual should never be bred from. As a pet I’m sure it will be fine if beak stays trimmed and is feed in a feed cup or container of some type..

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

This is major fault and this individual should never be bred from. As a pet I’m sure it will be fine if beak stays trimmed and is feed in a feed cup or container of some type..

It/he is not a pet. If he survives and thrives with normal care I’ll breed him. If not, he’ll die and remove himself from the genepool well before he ever gets old enough to breed.

Right now his head is rounding off a lot like a parrot’s. Its been a radical transformation in just a few days. His body stance is also different than his two brood mates. Its still upright but maybe not as long-necked. In fact if you asked me and I knew nothing of his background I would say he was some sort of odd, parrot-like bird that wasn’t a chicken.

I cannot tell if he is eating or not. He acts like he is and seems to be growing and energetic. But it looks more like he spoons his feed with his upper beak and it never looks like he gets much.

Either he’ll make it, or he won’t. I’m giving it a 50-50 shot as of today.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It/he is not a pet. If he survives and thrives with normal care I’ll breed him. If not, he’ll die and remove himself from the genepool well before he ever gets old enough to breed.

Right now his head is rounding off a lot like a parrot’s. Its been a radical transformation in just a few days. His body stance is also different than his two brood mates. Its still upright but maybe not as long-necked. In fact if you asked me and I knew nothing of his background I would say he was some sort of odd, parrot-like bird that wasn’t a chicken.

I cannot tell if he is eating or not. He acts like he is and seems to be growing and energetic. But it looks more like he spoons his feed with his upper beak and it never looks like he gets much.

Either he’ll make it, or he won’t. I’m giving it a 50-50 shot as of today.

Why would you breed something like that? There is no reason to risk more chicks with the same problem

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Why would you breed something like that? There is no reason to risk more chicks with the same problem

Why not? Its a fascinating mutation. Nothing ventured nothing gained. Animals are not static. Its evolution in progress. The odd beak and head shape is only is a problem if he can’t survive and flourish with it without my intervention. The key is for me to refrain from giving him special treatment. If he falls behind and begins to suffer I’ll euthanize him. If he flourishes, then the beak isn’t a detriment and there’s no reason to fear it.

The only special treatment I may give him is something for him to chew on if he’s willing to. Something he can file it down with himself like parrots sometimes use. If he doesn’t have the instinct to do that, he probably won’t make it. If he does do that, then perhaps the instinct comes with the beak design. Either ways its fascinating. That’s a primary reason I enjoy the chickens so. Such diversity in genetics and a high and fast enough reproductive rate to evolve them quickly.

 

[centrarchid]

Why would you breed something like that? There is no reason to risk more chicks with the same problem

I willing to bet the malformity is not genetically based. More likely than not, it is an artifact of using an incubator.