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Hiya, and welcome to BYC! :frow

I have a crossbeak hen. She's been cross-beaked since she was about two weeks old.

We've always fed her mash (water added to all-flock crumbles) in a deep ceramic dish, and when she was a few months old, we added fermented grains to her diet. She's been kept in a large pen with a couple of other chickens, and eats out of the main feeder too, but a lot of those dry crumbles fall out every bite they take.

She's now laying eggs. I'll probably let her free-range with the rest of the free-range crew once the weather gets nicer here.

I have never heard of one who had a cross-beaked chicken that improved, but ours did. She's not perfect by any means, but so much closer to how it should be. We did nothing other than keep her beak trimmed every couple of months. We bought a fingernail grinder that works pretty good. It's unknown how she got it in the first place, and unknown why, 8 months later, it's deciding to go back to normal.

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Just keep an eye on the top and bottom beaks and make sure neither overgrows. Normal chickens keep theirs even by all the pecking around they do. Ours can't do that, so they tend to overgrow.
 

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