Feeding the crooked beak chicken

[hooligan]

Its not that she's starving or anything, she's just not as big as them.
She had an appt to go to the vet today but he's super busy with surgeries and can't get to her so I guess she will be going in tomorrow.
Right now she is eating some crumbles with ground timothy hay and ground oatmeal mixed in.
Later tonight I'give her a bit of warm oatmeal again

 

[exsesivfrc]

We actually hung a plastic gutter and we make her a wet mash to dip her beak in. There's enough room for our other chickens so they don't run her off. Works perfectly. Just an idea.

 

[Sylviaanne]

I know this is an old thread but how do you teach a newborn cross beak to eat without drowning it? Thanks.

 

[OakHillFarm]

thats so cool!

 

[OakHillFarm]

got any pics?

 

[Sylviaanne]

This is my baby born yesterday.

 

[SusanCroteau]

I have one that is the same.. she is 2 months old now.. I never thought she would survive this long but she has.. She was the first to try everything.. when she was 2 weeks old she jumped up on my finer when I was cleaning the brooder.. the first to roost the first to come outside for the first time.. we go out everyday and she comes over and jumps up on my lap.. she has learned to pick up a worm.. sometimes it takes awhile.. but she gets it. My husband went out yesterday to check on them.. the new feeder had all the food mashed down, so we have to go out and make sure its pushed down where it is deep enough for her to eat and found her inside of the feeder merrily eating away. She is very small though.. This beak problem is caused from cross breeding, I would find a different rooster from a different source.. Watching her perservere has been inspiring!