crooked

I’ve got 25 6-week-olds and about half of them have severely curled toes. I haven’t seen this previously with our incubated eggs. Reading online brings up so many possibilities of what went wrong so I wonder if anyone here can help narrow down the culprit? My flock consists of a Marans rooster...

I’m new to hatching, and I incubated 15 button quail eggs recently. 9 hatched, and out of those 9, 2 of them have crooked toes. I think my humidity was off during lockdown. How will this affect breeding? They are pets so I likely won’t breed but if I decide to, how likely is it that the babies...

I live in Panama. I started to have chicken for eggs and for eating. Now, since almost one year, I became (almost) vegan so my chicken are my pets now. I refuse to give them to anyone because here they will make a soup out of them. I want them to live a long happy life. I think they deserve it...

I’m not sure if I’m posting in right place. I noticed my little Silkie still has a lot of pin feathers with that white covering still partially on them. She has an extremely crooked beak , so she can’t preen herself. Her sister doesn’t have any feathers still like this. Their 8months old. I...

I adopted 8 sick ducks recently and they are starting to improve. The previous owner kept them in a dirt patch with no water. They lost their ability to make normal duck noises but seem to be regaining that. I have one though that is just crooked! It walks around and swims just fine. He also...

I hatched a chick recently with a slightly crooked beak and wanted to share this info . I hope it works and can help someone. Basically on a recently hatched chick or mild case it says that if the top crosses to right of the bottom beak apply pressure toward left and vise versa. Holding it for...

Hi, one of my hens (which is a pbr) has always had a crooked head (not full stargazing). She has had this issue ever since she was about 2 weeks old. I posted about it in a fourm and everyone said it was just her crop. This chicken of mine has had both a crow and a rat attack, but I do not think...