Help!!! Top layer of beak peeled off. Weak beak.

[guest226]

My chicken has been having easily cracked beak lately, with small cracks on the sides. Today I went out and the hard dark layer on her top beak had been taken off!!

The underneath layer is softer and light. She is not in visable pain and she eats fine. But i’m worried of future cracking!!

She eats enough calcium (oyster shells) and I’ve been giving her flax seed for fatty acids. I don’t know why her beak is softer and is breaking more easily.

She was born with slight cross beak and hasn’t had beak issues since starting this month. She is 4 years old.

Is there any medicine or safe treatment i can apply to harden her beak??

Sorry to bother!! I’m just worried one day I will go out and her beak will be clean off. @Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock @azygous
By the way, today is a hot day.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sometimes they can catch the beak on fencing or something else and a layer will peel off.
I've had a few hens with skinned beaks like that, they healed up fine over the course of a week or two. Initially the beak was tender and they were cautious about eating/pecking at pellets, I just made sure to have a dish of wet mash available which seemed easier to manage.

 

[guest226]

Sometimes they can catch the beak on fencing or something else and a layer will peel off.
I've had a few hens with skinned beaks like that, they healed up fine over the course of a week or two. Initially the beak was tender and they were cautious about eating/pecking at pellets, I just made sure to have a dish of wet mash available which seemed easier to manage.

Thank you! I hope she recovers.

Shes been having cracks in her beak recently, so I think her beak might be a little weakened. They have been eating non layer-feed for a couple weeks because my supply store didn't have layer feed. I recently got them the right feed.

This post was about this same hen: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-beak-cracked-exposed-tissue-and-blood.1636771/

As long as she stays safe and stops crashing into things, i think she will recover.