VERY GRAPHIC PICS TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!

[mahen8622]

i opened an egg today that was past due so i wanted ot see if there was a chick in there or if it drowned in the egg bc i had a staggered hatch or what so i found this!!!!! it has TWO BEAKS AND THREE EYES!!! it was days away from hatching AHHHHH it died fifteen min after i opened the egg this is pretty disturbing to me has this happened to anyone b4????

 

[KellyHM]

Can you get a clearer pic? I had one that was kind of the opposite...no eyes or upper beak...the poor little thing was lively though so I actually had to cull it.

 

[mahen8622]

sorry this lil mutant is in the garbage it was so horrific to me it had full movement of its beaks they all moved in unouson ( sorry if spelling is off) these are the only pics i have my sister took a few to i could post them at a later date.
what causes this EEEEK!

 

[KellyHM]

It's just a malformation. A certain amount of chicks have birth defects, just like in people.

 

[mahen8622]

hmm didnt know if it was due to inbreeding or what i got a dozen eggs from someone locally and didnt know if it was jsut that theyd bred these birds to much or what

 

[scbatz33]

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I had one this morning no top beak. It was the most alive of all the chicks!! I had to cull as well. I felt horible cause it just stared at me an peeped away. How is it that the deformed one could be better off than the "normal" ones? It's weird!

 

[mahen8622]

well i could bet this lil chick had an upper beak or to ta spare for your chick lol

 

[Lunachick]

Poor baby, it just wasn't meant to be. Just like some "siamese" twins that sometimes don't make it for the same reasons... babies fused at the wrong time or something....

 

[mahen8622]

yep it had one giant eye in the middle between the top of hte beaks and two smaller ones on either eyes veeery odd one leg was a bit smaller too

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

My question is can some chicks be more genetically predisposed to birth defects than others, or is this an environmentally caused thing during development?