Help! broken beak on 8 week old pullet.

[Eggcessive]

I really have no experience wirh broken beaks, so I will let others respond. Here is some info from a good link:
https://the-chicken-chick.com/repairing-chickens-broken-beak/

 

[MotherHen1234]

Yes I did see this article but the breaks are not the same. Norris (my chicken) her break is all the way up to the nostrils. Unlike theirs are at the tip of the beak.

 

[PollyGirl21]

Try squirting some Sav-A-Chick water into the side of her beak with a syringe.

 

[MotherHen1234]

Ok I will look into that. It would have to be tomorrow though. I did do the baby aspirin.

 

[Nats Chickens]

Poor Norris, would it be a bad idea to push it back on. (don't do this without someone else okaying it. I have no idea what I am talking about) How did it happen?

 

[MotherHen1234]

I don’t think it will go back on. I have no Idea she couldn’t have gotten her head stuck in he hard wire cloth. It is too small of a hole. Maybe she ran into something?

 

[azygous]

One of the things you need to prepare for is if she refuses to eat. If you have a vet, ask them to sell you a feeding tube and feeding syringe to have on hand if she needs to be tube fed. I got a tube and syringe from my vet for $3 for the two items.

You can look for baby bird formula which is balanced in nutrients for birds to tube feed her or just to feed her as her beak heals. You will be surprised how quickly a chick can heal. I also mix yogurt and strained baby meat together for a high protein food for sick chickens. Or raw egg yolk and baby meat.

I've been thinking of a scenario where a chick could sustain that kind of beak injury. I picture a raw edge of hardware cloth with a slight gap against a wood surface. The chick sees something behind the ragged wire edge and sticks her beak into the gap, snags it on the raw edge and tears the beak as she tries to wrench herself free. You need to look for such a raw edge where you have your chicks and tape it up or secure it with a wood furring strip.

 

[MotherHen1234]

We did cover up the ragged edges but it is possible she could of found something we didn’t see.

 

[MotherHen1234]

Yes but how would I get her beak open to tube feed her?

 

[azygous]

It's possible to pry the beak open without touching the injury. You clasp her head from behind and with your thumb on one side of her face and a finger on the other side, insert your finger and thumb into the corners of her mouth holding it open just enough to slip the tube into the right side of her mouth and down the right side of her throat.

If you decide you need to tube feed her to keep her from starving, there will be people here to walk you through it. I'll be gone all day tomorrow but you can ping the author of this thread for help. https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ng-guide-pictures-under-construction.1064392/