More humane to cull? More humane to live?

[toniathequeen]

Don't kill that chick

What’s your experience with scissor beak? Do you have any advice for her as to why you would say that ?

 

[THEChIcKeNwhisperer354]

What’s your experience with scissor beak? Do you have any advice for her as to why you would say that ?

THAT IS A LINK

 

[JacinLarkwell]

THAT IS A LINK

That you keep posting against others saying to cull

 

[THEChIcKeNwhisperer354]

That you keep posting against others saying to cull

O gosh I not saying don't cull if you would have read the whole thread you would have seen that I said that if you don't do that then you probaly should cull.

 

[lancasterflock]

I'm going to share my experience with this type.


I had a sweet girl with a beak as bad as that. She did decent, but couldn't eat as much as she needed. One day I found her cold and stiff, curled up like she had just never woke up. My guess is that she just couldn't survive on what she could eat.

Now that I experienced this, I would cull chicks this extreme.

Thank you for your input here. Reading this....experience....helps me to understand what her future could look like. I would not cull if I had ANY reason to believe she could survive. But how extreme her jaw is and I’ve been counseled that these things do get worse as they get older....i truly believe she would suffer to keep her going.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

It's actually a decent video.

Love this story

 

[toniathequeen]

THAT IS A LINK

Ok, I’ll go read it

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Thank you for your input here. Reading this....experience....helps me to understand what her future could look like. I would not cull if I had ANY reason to believe she could survive. But how extreme her jaw is and I’ve been counseled that these things do get worse as they get older....i truly believe she would suffer to keep her going.

Mine was very similar. Near the end, she couldn't open her mouth enough to eat pellets (she ate crumble mash anyhow but a pellet couldn't even fit.

She also sliced her mouth with a toenail one day from giving herself a scratch. Her tongue would be dry from being expised all the time to the air

 

[lancasterflock]

It's okay to hurt on this. I still give a cry about my sweet girl. But you know she'll likely never have a healthy life and a bit of your pain is better than a lot of hers

I couldn’t agree with this more

 

[lancasterflock]

She is starving slowly to death, I would have put her out of her misery long ago.

This is not just a cross beak, but the whole lower mandibula is out of place with no way to fix this.

Well.....a long time ago it was not this bad. I thought she may have had a chance. Literally within the last couple of days it has gotten so bad which has led me to where I am right now.