One Eyed with Crossed Beak Beating The Odds?

[josie705]

I went to a breeder and bought 3 6-week old Ameraucana pullets. While I was there I was offered a free pullet that had one eye and a slightly crossed beak. I took her home and named her Becky after Finding Dory's Becky.
She is now 10 weeks old, and eating/drinking just fine. She is though, slightly smaller than her friends, but is not picked on. Her beak has stayed the same and hasn't got worse either.
I just recently took her to a 4-H Tractor Supply Poultry Day event and everyone loved her, but I was told by a chicken breeder that chicks like that never make it past a week. She was absolutely baffled that Becky was almost 10 weeks old and thriving. After some research, I found that what the breeder said was mostly true
So my question is, have any of you ever heard of one of these chicks/pullets surviving into adulthood?

 

[aart]

Only time will tell if it continues to thrive.

If cross beak isn't too bad and and it can eat and drink ok, then it should live.
Might be it's smaller because it is not eating as well as it should.

The missing eye it can probably adjust to, tho it will be more susceptible to predation.

Is the skull malformed?

Deformity due to incubation or excessive inbreeding could extend to internal organs causing problems that have not manifested yet.

There's plenty of birds out there that were 'saved' despite malformations.
Do a search on 'special needs chicks' and/or 'crossbeaks' and/or 'missing eyes' and/or 'blind bird'.

 

[Mrs. K]

The smaller size might not be a good indicator. I had one, that did just fine for quite a while, and then all at once, I noticed that she was quite a bit smaller than the other flock mates. She died shortly afterwards, and when I picked her up, I was rather horrified at how light she was. Those feathers can hide a lot. When she was small, she could eat enough to maintain herself, but as her body grew, she could not get enough feed to maintain herself, and I am pretty sure she starved to death. Or that at least contributed to her death.

She was about 10 weeks old. I recently had another, but that chick failed to thrive right away, and I was glad, that I did not have to make a decision.

MRs K