Hi everyone
See details below - I'm hoping someone knows!
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
She is 18 weeks old, a silver partridge araucana, and normal weight (as I have two others who are fit and healthy).
2) What is...
Yeh I did lots of googling and couldn't work out the terminology either. Can't see how she could survive it as the base of the beak is missing and surely having the tongue in a skin pocket underneath is really painful? As they arnt designed to be like that?
I've since found the tongue is not in her beak but in the lump under her beak in her throat. She has a herniated beak floor. Has anyone heard of this? I think I need to put her down 😔
Hey so we have found now that the tongue is under the beak and in the lump underneath not in the beak. So as you say herniated floor which I'd imagine is common in parrot beak as the tongue slides?
Hi all, my chick had wry neck symptoms, running in circles and looking to the sky. Put some stressless nutrients in their water which included vit e and vit b. Within 48hrs the wry neck symptoms have resolved but a lump of skin with no fluid in it is under the beak. Since noticed it has parrot...
Hey this is my thread on parrot beak https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chick-had-wry-neck-symptoms-and-swelling-what-is-it.1486549/#post-24780520
Thanks, yeh i was surprised it resolved so fast. There are other threads talking about parrot beak with the mysterious lump underneath with no diagnosis. Do they live long do you know? I also have a chick with crossbeak so worried I bought some inbred eggs causing genetic defects which is sad...