Beak injury with pictures

[chickennewb-E]

Hello,

For those of you who have seen my posts before, you know my son’s chickens are his babies. After spending some time outside today, one of them seems to have an injured beak. It is cracked across the bridge. I have read about supergluing, but not sure that is best. Can someone please look at the pictures and give us your thoughts.
She does still seem to be eating and drinking and the others are acting the same towards her.

 

[sourland]

Did that just happen? It almost looks as if it happened a while ago. If the bird is having trouble eating, provide moistened feed in a deep dish. The entire tip of the upper beak may fall off or hopefully only the outer layer.

 

[chickennewb-E]

Did that just happen? It almost looks as if it happened a while ago. If the bird is having trouble eating, provide moistened feed in a deep dish. The entire tip of the upper beak may fall off or hopefully only the outer layer.

We think so. i have been handling them often and this is the first ive seen of it. And there was blood.

Should i try to patch it?

 

[coach723]

If it's very unstable you can try to reinforce it while it grows out. If it's stable, I would just leave it alone. If you try to patch it make sure to use a gel type superglue rather than a liquid. The liquid runs too much and you risk getting it places you don't want it, you don't want to glue her tongue. You use the glue and a bit of tea bag, instructions here:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/repairing-chickens-broken-beak/
Beak injuries can be very painful. Deep, open dishes of feed mixed with water, and deep, open dishes of water, raised up off the ground, can make it easier for them to scoop with the lower beak, and less painful. Most injuries harden up in a few days and then are not so painful. So if it's stable, then I would give it a few days, and just keep an eye on it. As long as the quick is not damaged it will grow out with time, beaks tend to grow slowly.