Silkie chick with beak injury

[LA~Poulet]

We found someone locally selling silkie chicks advertised on CL, and we went to see them and came home with three (of course, because they are so evil

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He only had one white chick, and my son instantly fell in love with it. However, it has a beak issue, I'm not sure if it is a deformity or was an injury, the guy hadn't noticed it (he had a lot of chicks mixed together). It doesn't seem to slow it down, it eats normally and actually is the most rambunctious of the three chicks, but I wanted to get advice here about how to care for it and if it may grow out (or get worse). I have them quarantined in a brooder a distance away from my other birds because of reading this forum, I would have quarantined them regardless.

Has anyone seen or dealt with something like this before? They are about four weeks old.

edit for clarification

 

[LA~Poulet]

anyone?

 

[silkiechicken]

Just make sure she is eating and drinking. Other than that, it should grow back in a month or two. Like your nail, their beak will come back. It appears the "quick" is damaged a bit due to what appears to be blood, but it's not bleeding any more so not much you can or need to do about it.

 

[:D chicken]

it should be fine as long as it can eat and drink the beak will probly grow more and being rambunctious is a good sign LOL

 

[LA~Poulet]

Thank you, Silkiechicken. I was starting to seriously second guess my decision to bring them home and hoping there wasn't some rare contagious beak disease I had missed when I was researching.