Chicken missing top beak

[kbwarren]

My chicken got attacked and her top beak was injured and eventually fell off. She can eat her meal if I add water to it, but cant seem to pick up anything on her own. I am wondering if I can add a prosthetic beak? Or trim back the lower mandible a bit to help her out. Thoughts?

 

[Eggcessive]

So sorry about your chicken. There is an excellent thread to read here on BYC called "Please Help, chicken's beak got bitten off" if you do a search at the top of the page. The poor hen lost most of her upper and lower beak, and is doing well 19 months later. The owner learned to tube feed her until her beak healed, and she finally learned how to eat cooked eggs and moistened chicken feed. I hope you can save her.

 

[Holly31]

Hi All,
We had a rooster mishap and two bantams beat the heck out of a normal roo. We saved his sorry butt and tube fed him and cared for him until one of his eyes “returned”. He didn’t do too badly for about 10 months but a bantam got loose and teased him, resulting in his fighting the bantam through 1/4 inch mesh wire. He grated his upper beak off.
After all the fleshy part healed I trimmed his lower beak back so he could eat, but he just got thinner and started to falter. He’s back in the house, been tube feeding him baby formula but dislike this stop gap.
I cut his spurs and used some of the horn to make an artificial beak. I used fingernail glue. It worked, and he started eating with gusto. And it came off. Any ideas on keeping it attached for more than a day? Pics below.