What is wrong with this beak!!!??? OMG!!

[zookeeptd]

I'm in North Mississippi too.

COOL! Thought I was only one.. I'm close to Olive Branch.

 

[zookeeptd]

Thanks for giving me some info on this lil darlin. I know he/she is eating & drinking. And yes he/she is smaller than the other bannie that's same color but very lively!

 

[Aschenfire]

My black Silkie, Misumi, has a slight crossbeak. It is unfortunate too, because she is gorgeous otherwise. She keeps up just fine with everyone else, and at 5 weeks, seems to be able to eat and drink normally. I am hoping it doesn't get worse, and if it seems to be, I'll try trimming the top a bit.

 

[Dingo]

I have a coturnix quail that hatched crooked beaked. She's from my tester eggs which could have been sibling/sibling pairing resulting in inbreeding. Her's isn't too severe, about the same as the two on the first page and she does just fine, and stands her ground when she has some cheese and the others want it.

 

[9Catsz]

Some breeders breed Brother to Sister so many time that they get so inbred. 1 way to not have that happen is to line breed. This should produce good chicks. Breed Mother to son, father to daughter. grandparents to grandchildren, and never brother to sister. Sometimes it just happens, just a deformity.

Nate

Breeding brother to sister is not the cause of cross beak, as you've implied above. The gene was present in both parent birds or the mutation would not have shown itself.
i.e. if you got a bird with a cross beak, then BOTH parents already had the mutation, even though they don't physically have a crossed beak, and all their babies will have the gene for it, even if they don't physically show a cross beak. In that case, line breeding son to mother and/or father to daughter will give each egg a 66% chance of producing a cross beaked baby.
If your stock doesn't have any genetic mutations floating around in their genes, then breeding brother to sister is just fine.

Along the line of "Sometimes it just happens, just a deformity" is very true. This could have simply been an incubation problem.

What bothers me is folks who automatically start blaming hatcheries when they see a malformed chick. I bought hatchery chicks last year and some anti-hatchery snobs on here told me I needed to buy "show quality" silkie eggs from BYCers at inflated prices to get "good stock". I did it and ended up with small crested, cross beaked and curled toe silkes. I hatched eggs from my hatchery chicks at the same time in the same bator and they turned out fantastic with huge crests and perfect in every way.

 

[OkChickens]

Breeding brother to sister is not the cause of cross beak, as you've implied above. The gene was present in both parent birds or the mutation would not have shown itself.
i.e. if you got a bird with a cross beak, then BOTH parents already had the mutation, even though they don't physically have a crossed beak, and all their babies will have the gene for it, even if they don't physically show a cross beak. In that case, line breeding son to mother and/or father to daughter will give each egg a 66% chance of producing a cross beaked baby.
If your stock doesn't have any genetic mutations floating around in their genes, then breeding brother to sister is just fine.

Along the line of "Sometimes it just happens, just a deformity" is very true. This could have simply been an incubation problem.

What bothers me is folks who automatically start blaming hatcheries when they see a malformed chick. I bought hatchery chicks last year and some anti-hatchery snobs on here told me I needed to buy "show quality" silkie eggs from BYCers at inflated prices to get "good stock". I did it and ended up with small crested, cross beaked and curled toe silkes. I hatched eggs from my hatchery chicks at the same time in the same bator and they turned out fantastic with huge crests and perfect in every way.

I didnt say that every hatchery produces deformed chicks. In general though a very large percentage of day olds come from hatcheries. They have a HUGE number of birds that produces chicks and no one really know how they are bred at the hatchery either by producing and growing out new stock every year or so or by bringing in new bloodlines to keep this from happening. I have had hatchery birds before and I haven't ever had cross beaks luckily but many people get them from hatcheries.

Nate

 

[zookeeptd]

Well, guess my luck!! I went back to TS and bought 10 more Bantams in March. That's 2 trips buying 10 Bantams each time several weeks apart. Got another chick with beak trouble! She's my only white Polish and very sweet. My other cross beak is doing fine so far. She does take longer to eat and drink.
Does anyone know where Tractor Supply gets their chicks?