Chicken pickin and pickles thanks for being so kind to me. For the others, I feel like I should defend myself:
Yes it is a severe crossbeak. However, at the feed store they said it was able to eat fine. I felt it's crop and it was halfway full so I felt like this was true. Then I took the chick to a veterinarian and he said that if the chick was able to eat on it's own and fill it's crop then he didn't see any reason to cull yet. It is only slightly smaller than the others so I don't think it has poor nutrition. I don't feel like it's had a miserable life. It was hurtful to read that as I wanted to give it a chance, and I try to take care of my animals. Not many people actually take their birds to a vet, and it would have been culled then if he felt it was a bad quality of life.
As for the rooster comment... I was under the assumption I was buying an autosexing breed so I would avoid getting a male. This is what they said it was, and I paid a higher price for it. It wasn't like I bought straight run and hoped for the best.
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