Your silkie is such a cutie. Mine is smaller than the rest but otherwise eats and drinks fine. I’m hoping that once Beakers grows she can file it on her own. But right now she barely leaves the baby coop. I wish I could put something in there for them to file their beaks on but it’s a small prefab coop I’m using to integrate them. And the coop is small. But your story gives me hope that I might only be filing her beak for a short while. Thank you.
Its really ok if it curves! As you can see, my girl’s beak is curved and she has no problems. I do have to trim her top beak but her bottom beak she handles herself, I have several different rocks and bricks in the coop she can use. She has learned to adapt very well even with the curve. She even eats worms.
I so agree. I have nothing against people who treat chickens like livestock. Raise your animals the way you want. But to me my animals are more than livestock. Every animal is special. I have social anxiety to the point where I don’t talk to people for days except the people I live with. I communicate mostly through text and my chickens have actually made me more social. This is actually the only social media I have because my anxiety gets so bad even talking online. But I love talking about my chickens.
It makes me sad for her animals because I know how she treats them. But there’s no telling someone how to raise their animals when they’ve been doing it for 10 years.
Thanks. The dog nail clippers is a good idea. Beakers could not stand the filing and I felt like I was torturing her doing it. Her beak is so small it’s hard to get ahold of too. So far she doesn’t have much trouble eating but I make sure she has the crumbles and an open waterer. I have the nipple waterer for the other chickens but with the open one there they hardly ever use the nipple one.
