Possible Beak Injury?

[Chicken_Bureaucrat]

Basically this white bit on one side and a bit on top of her beak. I've included pictures of both sides so you can see her normal side as well.

The white spot on the side seems like it has a bit of dirt in it. Almost like she has a little dent in her beak that filled with dirt.

Fortunately she's acting happy and eating well. But I don't know if I should be doing anything?

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1) BCM, 9 months, healthy weight and vigor
2) acting perfectly normal besides the beak dent
3) I'd say she has had this maybe a week? Hard to say when it started
4) no other birds have this
5) only indication of trauma is this dent in her beak
6) she got scared by a leaf blower at one point and was flying against the hardware cloth. This is the only event I can think of where she may have been hurt.
7) she's eating and drinking fine
8) sometimes they have runny poops but mostly normal. I can't tell who has the runny poops
9) no treatment so far
10 ) no treatment intended unless someone thinks of something
11) picture posted
12) wooden coop with pine shavings. Hardware cloth run with sand floor. Currently covered in straw as they had a bale to play with

 

[Wyorp Rock]

6) she got scared by a leaf blower at one point and was flying against the hardware cloth. This is the only event I can think of where she may have been hurt.

Looks like she scraped it against wire. For me, if she were mine, I'd just monitor and leave the beak alone to heal on its own.

 

[Chicken_Bureaucrat]

Looks like she scraped it against wire. For me, if she were mine, I'd just monitor and leave the beak alone to heal on its own.

Do you reckon I should try to clean the dirt out or is that not going to help? Don't want to scare her for no reason.

No real change and she's still acting fine

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you reckon I should try to clean the dirt out or is that not going to help? Don't want to scare her for no reason.

No real change and she's still acting fine

Cleaning it is up to you.

But again...IF she were mine, I'd monitor and leave it alone. Sometimes things don't really need to be messed with unless there's a true need.

Looks like she scraped it against wire. For me, if she were mine, I'd just monitor and leave the beak alone to heal on its own.

 

[Chicken_Bureaucrat]

Cleaning it is up to you.

But again...IF she were mine, I'd monitor and leave it alone. Sometimes things don't really need to be messed with unless there's a true need.

Makes sense! I'll just watch her! Thank you!