I realized something was wrong yesterday when my rooster was being particularly aggressive with the hens and ducks about food. Then I noticed that his beak was not closing. On closer inspection, that was because the lower beak is cracked all the way across, so it bends downward, creating a gap...
Hi all,
This injury appears recent. I handle my year-old Bielefelder roo nearly daily, and noticed this today. He had a barely clotted scab about halfway down his lower mandible. It appears to have caused chipping and raising of the beak. I cleaned the wound with saline and put Neosporin...
Hi everyone ,
We just recently took a leap into the chicken world. Since then I've definitely learned a lot of things about emergencies. I can't seem to find anything about this type of beak injury though. Pineapple just got this today. When we went to check on them this afternoon the blood was...