One of my 5 day old chicks is cross beaked. It doesn't seem to bad, but you can tell. I have looked at the photos online. She doesn't to be as bad as some of them. Will she be ok?
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I had a chick in my last batch that started showing a slight cross at about 3 weeks. It did not get worse and in fact as she grew it corrected and she is completely normal now. My vet suspects vitamin D deficiency? I don't know, he said it was just an educated guess and I've never dealt with it before but I know that as soon as they started going outside and getting some sun every day the cross beak started getting less and less until she was normal.
So, you might just watch and see how things go and see if it gets progressively worse or not. If it's not too bad they can learn to get along with it but I've seen some that are really bad and the chicken just did not do well. In that case I personally would cull but there are some people who go all out and do the tube feeding etc. etc.