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A quick follow up, we are now nearly a year after the repairs to the duck hen's bill and she is doing great. Absolutely no different than the other hens and her bill is fully healed. For anyone reading this, I hope you have the same success with any beak or bill repairs you undertake!

A final post on our duck bill break and repair. We are about 20 days now from the injury date and our hen has been returned to the aviary and is living with a hen friend in an enclosure separate from the main flock. She is drinking, eating, preening and doing all manner of duck activities...

Editing this to add that we found what appears to be a better glue for this purpose. We are now using J-B Weld SuperWeld Light Activated Instant Glue. Read the instructions! We most definitely use protective gloves and the PPE recommended in the instructions. This glue activates quickly on...

I will come back to add more, edit and post photos soon, but wanted to share a duck bill repair tactic we devised that seems to be working, just in case anyone else has a similar emergency and is looking for ideas straight away. As always, this worked for us, but might not work for you, or I...