Is this a bruise or something else more serious?

Lilybugchick

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Has anyone seen this before? It looks worse in the picture than it does in person, but it looks like she has a bruise on her nose. Looks like it may have been pecked by another one of our chicks. Chick pea is 7 weeks old.
 

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She may have injured it on a feeder or by sticking her beak through wire.
Possible another picked at it too.

I've seen this on a few of mine over the years, they were pecking at something through hardware cloth. I just monitored it, and it healed up o.k. on it's own.
 

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