Post your deformed birds here!

[MochaDuck]

Lately I've been seeing many cute deformed birds on this site. While some are sad, some can be very interesting! Feel free to post pictures of your birds with deformities here! I'd love to see them.

 

[cleoandtheflock]

My EE hen waggy has a slightly deformed beak where it can fully shut if that counts!
She is still a pullet but lays eggs and she is really sweet and very crazy

It’s sort of hard to see but her beak is as shut as it gets in that picture

 

[BGcoop]

I have 2 chicks that hatched with bad legs.(we had bad temperature fluctuations in the beginning of incubation due to an old incubator and lost 4/5 of the eggs) One had toes fully webbed and we clipped them open but then it developed an outward twist to one of its legs, we attempted hobbling and while that helped a bit it began rubbing a wound in the leg. The other has never been able to put any weight one one of its legs and just sort of hops around. They are going to need to be put down at some point, but for now they have been able to flop and hop to food and water and are growing and strangely don’t seem to be suffering yet so family doesn’t want me to do anything to them yet. I’ll take Picts tomorrow.

 

[rosemarythyme]

This is Curly-Q, my "special" Speckled Sussex. She's about a year old now (photos were taken around 3 mos old).

For starters she has an extra back toe on each foot, with both back toes being very stumpy - it makes it hard for her to perch and she's more prone to bumblefoot.



She also has weird wings where the tip portion always hang down (the white feathers are the end of her wing and should be held up a few inches higher), like maybe there's something going on in the joint there? As a result she can't fly at all, though she flaps hard while running on the ground.



As a chick she kept spinning in circles, hence her name, then as around 4 months or so she couldn't stand upright. Folks on here diagnosed her as having wry neck and I had her in isolation for a month while supplementing her with vitamins B & E .

She's laid maybe 6 eggs total. I'm thinking she might be laying internally but she doesn't show any real symptoms, other than the fact that she goes to the nest box but doesn't lay.

After all that, you'd think she'd be bottom of pecking order... well, she's not. She's now the highest ranked of my younger hens! I even saw her fighting with another of her flockmates that used to pick on her and even though she could barely stay upright, she won the fight handily.