Did you get the carfax? Looks like it’s been in an accident.
MissAizea
She almost look like she got debeaked. Poultry producers will basically cut half of the top beak and a third of the bottom up prevent pecking and other problems that arise in high density chicken houses. But it’s weird if it’s just the one bird. Could be a deformity, hard to tell from the angle. She should be able to eat, it she seems like she’s struggling, try a deeper dish.
Mushy-Mango
Jethus Cwithe
ignoran_
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i_pooped_on_you
Nothing is ripped off this bird – that’s an intact but deformed bill. It will probably stay like this.
SingularRoozilla
This looks like a deformity. She should be fine, I would keep an eye on her but overall just allow her to do chicken things. This unfortunately can’t be fixed.
LBROTSI
They can still eat and drink . It’s more common than you think . I work in the poultry industry . I see it all the time .
Randell70
Just name him,,, “Special Ed…!”😁😊
fistfulofsanddollars
This is clearly Peyronie’s disease, obvious case of a badly bent pecker.
bcmouf
Cross beak that got debeaked as a chick. If she made it this long without having to have special accommodations to eat/drink to keep up with her peers, she should be fine. Just dont breed from her cause if my memory serves correctly its a genetic defect that fuses the growth plates on one side of the skull too soon, thus a slight/barely cross as a day-old gets worse and worse with age.
auhnold
If she made it to 14 weeks I’d say she’ll be fine! Looks like a deformity.
wiiver
Ripped off with a $5 bird? Were you planning on kissing it?
urosum
She grew this big. She must be eating something.
Emory75068
Take her to the vet. Poor thing!
CantaloupeMean2177
Don corleone
notsonice333
Your chicken was clipped at the beak when it was a baby to stop it from pecking at other birds and doing damage. If it was a layer hen then that’s most likely what it is. Yes it’s fine. Eats and drinks just fine. Did it hurt? We’ll ask a kid who got their ears pierced when they were 1 month old if it had hurt. Answer would be “I don’t know, not that I know of.”
Downtoearth888
I had a hen with a beak like that, it showed up after a couple weeks. It’s called like cross beak or something. she can’t file down her beak on rocks like normal chickens do it because of the odd shape of the top beak, the bottom will grow jagged. If you just got them it seems like the periods owner cut the top beak. With my gall, buck beak, I had to fill/cut her beak ever couple weeks or it would get wild. If it got to bad I’d have to feed her wet mush food and a bucket of water cus she struggled with nipple drinking
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Did you get the carfax? Looks like it’s been in an accident.
She almost look like she got debeaked. Poultry producers will basically cut half of the top beak and a third of the bottom up prevent pecking and other problems that arise in high density chicken houses. But it’s weird if it’s just the one bird. Could be a deformity, hard to tell from the angle. She should be able to eat, it she seems like she’s struggling, try a deeper dish.
Jethus Cwithe
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Nothing is ripped off this bird – that’s an intact but deformed bill. It will probably stay like this.
This looks like a deformity. She should be fine, I would keep an eye on her but overall just allow her to do chicken things. This unfortunately can’t be fixed.
They can still eat and drink . It’s more common than you think . I work in the poultry industry . I see it all the time .
Just name him,,, “Special Ed…!”😁😊
This is clearly Peyronie’s disease, obvious case of a badly bent pecker.
Cross beak that got debeaked as a chick. If she made it this long without having to have special accommodations to eat/drink to keep up with her peers, she should be fine. Just dont breed from her cause if my memory serves correctly its a genetic defect that fuses the growth plates on one side of the skull too soon, thus a slight/barely cross as a day-old gets worse and worse with age.
If she made it to 14 weeks I’d say she’ll be fine! Looks like a deformity.
Ripped off with a $5 bird? Were you planning on kissing it?
She grew this big. She must be eating something.
Take her to the vet. Poor thing!
Don corleone
Your chicken was clipped at the beak when it was a baby to stop it from pecking at other birds and doing damage. If it was a layer hen then that’s most likely what it is. Yes it’s fine. Eats and drinks just fine. Did it hurt? We’ll ask a kid who got their ears pierced when they were 1 month old if it had hurt. Answer would be “I don’t know, not that I know of.”
I had a hen with a beak like that, it showed up after a couple weeks. It’s called like cross beak or something. she can’t file down her beak on rocks like normal chickens do it because of the odd shape of the top beak, the bottom will grow jagged. If you just got them it seems like the periods owner cut the top beak. With my gall, buck beak, I had to fill/cut her beak ever couple weeks or it would get wild. If it got to bad I’d have to feed her wet mush food and a bucket of water cus she struggled with nipple drinking