Can I fix this chick or should I humanely cull it?

[Isaiah53]

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Oh, my goodness, I just took a second look and no, it doesn't have a left eye!!

I attached pictures above. You were correct, no left eye.

 

[Kaybear1950]

I attached pictures above. You were correct, no left eye.

I vote cull too. That's a lot of deformities for a chicken.

 

[Roosterrob21]

It is really bad. I was wondering if there was a way to realign it with tape or something similar to what we'd do with splayed feet, but my guess is no. I think you're right, the humane thing to do would be to cull it. Poor thing now I understand why it struggled so hard to get out of the shell, he couldn't peck through properly with that beak.

I'm no doctor but o I believe it could be fixed but I have no idea how without possibly making it worse or causing pain, for that reason o would cull. Longer u wait the harder it'll be

 

[Isaiah53]

It's what I thought as well Thank you everyone. And Kaybear1950 thanks for pointing out the left eye missing. I don't know how I missed that!

May I ask how you all humanely put your chicks down?

 

[Roosterrob21]

Didn't not mean to out those faces phone is broke

 

[Roosterrob21]

Break the neck or cut the head off. It's quick and painless

 

[Zinjifrah]

Decapitation is the simplest and most effective, humane method, unless you are practiced at cervical dislocation. For a baby that small - I would decapitate.

It's what I had to do with one of my fledgelings that developed scissor beak. Not as extreme as that... and he had both eyes. But it was the upper beak that was out of position, rather than the lower, and it was visibly compromising his ability to breathe easily as it got worse.

 

[ronott1]

Cross beak usually gets worse over time.

The chick has some deformities. It likely has skeletal issues too.

Culling is likely best.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Cull it. Scissor beak gets worse as the bird grows, and with that many deformities who knows what's going on with the rest of it? Forget a normal life, it's never going to have a chance at a comfortable life.

Put it out of its misery, then, if you have the stomach for it and the inclination to do so, dissect it and see what else is going on. If I were you I might bury it and eventually dig it back up, try to get that skull to keep as a specimen.

 

[Isaiah53]

Thank you everyone...poor chick was euthanized yesterday. No dissection, just a burial.

Thank you for your time and input.