Muted swans

[Jcblondey]

Hi, I have a one year old male muted swan. I noticed a week ago he had 3 small pink bumps on his beak. Now they are larger and almost a black color. I’ve had swans before and I’ve never seen this. It could be bite from ants I don’t know. Has anyone seen this before on beaks? He is eating and drinking and acting perfectly normal.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens!
I’ve no experience with keeping swans, but there are lots of helpful and knowledgeable people here.
Hope you can get answers.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Let me tag a few people:
@sourland
@SilverBirds

 

[sourland]

Hello, and welcome to BYC. Really not certain what is going on with this bird.

 

[SilverBirds]

I'm sorry I don't know what would be going on with his bill.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hi and welcome to BYC. We have all kinds of poultry represented here, but I am not sure if I have seen a swan contingent here ... do we have one? Let me ask one of the Admins.
@casportpony?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Now I am curious. Can you purchase swans? Shouldn't he have a mate?

 

[SilverBirds]

Hi and welcome to BYC. We have all kinds of poultry represented here, but I am not sure if I have seen a swan contingent here ... do we have one? Let me ask one of the Admins.
@casportpony?

The few I knew haven't been active for some months now. I would think that whatever the bumps are is waterfowl/bill related and not solely swan.

Now I am curious. Can you purchase swans? Shouldn't he have a mate?

You can. I know a lot of major hatcheries such as McMurray, Cackle, Meyers, Stormberg, and others carry them, but they sell out early in the breeding season. And they can cost an arm and a leg.