Chicken beak

[dpnation]

I just noticed my chicken's beak is doing this underbite thing. She didn't have this originally. She is behaving normally. What's going on and is there something I need to do?
Thanks!

 

[GodLovesU]

Can you post a picture from the front? It looks like a crossbeak, from what I can see.

 

[dpnation]

Can you post a picture from the front? It looks like a crossbeak, from what I can see.

Here are a few more! Is crossbeak something that happens in adult chickens? She didn’t have this when I got her a year ago

 

[Daisy June]

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I just noticed my chicken's beak is doing this underbite thing. She didn't have this originally. She is behaving normally. What's going on and is there something I need to do?
Thanks!

Does she hang with an English Bulldog that she might be imitating? No, but seriously, did you just notice this?

 

[sourland]

For some reason, the lower beak is overgrowing. If she were mine, I would trim the lower beak back to the quick.

 

[dpnation]

Does she hang with an English Bulldog that she might be imitating? No, but seriously, did you just notice this?

HA! Maybe she got in a bar fight?

I just dug up some photos when I got her, which looks like was exactly a year ago (she belonged to a friend of mine and her flock got taken out by an ermine, and this was the one chicken who somehow escaped the massacre). I took her in because she had no other chickens to keep warm with for the winter.

Looks like she might have had a little bit of a shorter top beak but it looks more pronounced now

 

[dpnation]

For some reason, the lower beak is overgrowing. If she were mine, I would trim the lower beak back to the quick.

Thanks, I will definitely look into doing this!

 

[GodLovesU]

My bad, definitely not a crossbeak.

 

[sourland]

My bad, definitely not a crossbeak.

No bad - it was a definite possibility until we saw the next group of pictures.

 

[dpnation]

No bad - it was a definite possibility until we saw the next group of pictures.

My bad, definitely not a crossbeak.

Not a problem! I haven't encountered this before, definitely a strange thing going on