Is a curved beak geneticly passed on??

[Bec]

The title pretty much asks the question. I have a black silkie and her whole beak, if you are looking at her face to face, it curves to the right. Is this something she will pass on if she hatches out her own babies in the future or is it a defect that occurred during incubation? Right now she is only 8 weeks old.

 

[muddyhorse]

Is she cross beaked or does the whole thing curve, top and bottom ?

 

[Bec]

The whole thing curves, definitely not cross beak

 

[muddyhorse]

maybe she will grow out of it, I don't know do you have any pictures ?

 

[Bec]

I will have to get some tomorrow. I had them out in the yard today and was looking at them all picking out which ones are nice conformation wise. I really like everything else about her, but then she looked up and I saw it! I was so disappointed. I don't plan on breeding them as a hobby, but I may want to hatch out some babies and really don't want to pass it on. They are really nice, non-hatchery birds.

 

[hoppy]

did you pull back her feathers on the face and really take a look? this may be enlightening (or not)
anyway, curved beaks can be from incubation issues so may not be genetic at all. at 8 weeks it's probably too late to correct the problem if was fixable with gentle manipulation but you might try anyway.(won't hurt just might not help)

 

[Bec]

I didn't take a close look, but when I do, what am I looking for? As far as trying to fix it, it's worth a try, but like you said, at 8 weeks..it may be too late. She would just have to be just another pretty bird in the flock