Silkie chicken (3.5months old) can’t eat or drink

[Jingles000]

Hi,

I have a silkie that is about 3.5 months old is no longer able to eat or drink.

She was born with a deformed beak. I had been trimming it hoping it would help. She was always smaller but I observed her eating and drinking with the others regularly. Her beak gradually kept looking worse and now she seems unable to eat and drink at all and is extremely malnourished. Her beak no longer closes but did used to close.

Does anyone know what is wrong? I would also like any advice on humane euthanasia. I have watched a few videos on cervical dislocation, is this best?

Also, please excuse the last photo. I am not strangling her in the photo. Just gently holding her head to get a close up to show the beak better.

 

[Eggcessive]

Unfortunately cross beak defects get worse as the chicken grows up. Many end up dying because they cannot get enough to eat. Feeding crumbles or a wet mash out of a deeper sided bowl might help them to get as much food as possible. Tube feeding in extreme cases might help keep her alive, but that is not practical for most of us. There is also something called torpedo feeding where chickens are given small pieces of food—chicken feed plus egg and water, mashed—and fed a couple of times a day. Here is a link plus a video on how to do this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...eeding-what-is-it-and-when-to-use-it.1532744/