The beak fell off help!!!!

FluffyPuff-
I had a plymouth barred rock who broke her beak in my first year of chicken keeping. I was in quite a panic wondering what I should do. I turned to my expert resources (BYC being one of them) and concluded that I didn't need to do anything. Gertie seemed unaffected by the broken piece and was able to eat and drink. Eventually the beak did heal itself. If your lady seems to be doing ok and you can observe eating and drinking then I wouldn't worry to much about it. I will say that I am a suburban chicken keeper - not a vet - so a call to yours when they are open to confirm wouldn't hurt.
Good luck! Don't stress.

 

If it's just the first quarter of and inch, it will grow back. No need to put anything on it. It's like you breaking a nail. It grows back, so will her beak.

 

I used a pain relieving neosporin on my chicken's broken beak. It did not fall off like yours did but it was cracked and she screamed loudly when she broke it, so I'm sure it was very painful. I think parts of it fell off later, but rest assured, she grew back whatever cracked and fell off. I also had a rooster that did the same thing poking his beak through hardware cloth and got stuck. He lost a good portion of his beak then, but in about 4 weeks it was healed up.

Don't use any ointment that has a pain reliever in it that ends with 'caine". I heard that will kill a chicken. Not sure- just going by what I've heard on the boards. Be sure not to obstruct any air passages- Oh and I'm not sure how a chicken could eat with any gooey ointment on it, so that might take some ingenuity to come up with something else. I'm not familiar with vetricyn, sorry.

Asos, try to make eating easy for your hen though- it can be tricky for them. Having a large vat of feed that they can stuff their face into to get a good scoop of feed is a good idea. Watch for gangrene, pus, infection, etc. Sometimes when the beak grows back it doesn't grow so evenly either, but I don't know what one can do about that.


Best wishes to you and yours.

 

Moistening the feed will make it easier for the chicken to eat, and the other chickens will love it, too. Just make sure none gets left around each day or it can mold. Chickens eat around 1/2 a cup of moistened feed per day, in case you need to know if they're getting enough.

 

What do I do!!! My chickens beak fell off I need help!! Please please help

 

Do you have a picture? What part of the beak, and how did it happen? Is the chicken awake and alert? If part of the beak is cracked or broken, she make still be able to eat wet feed in a taller bowl. Here are some articles to help:
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/01/repairing-chickens-broken-beak.html
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/brokenbeaks.html

You may want to run out to WalMart or a pet store to pick up a piece of aquarium air tubing, and a large regular syringe from a feed store to make a crop feeding device. Take a lighter and soften one end of the tube slightly to dull sharp edges (the part that goes into the beak.) Here is a good thread about tube feeding:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/805728/go-team-tube-feeding

If the whole beak is missing, here is a long thread where a chicken was saved with tube feeding until it learned to eat without it's beak:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/848424/plese-help-chickens-beak-got-bit-off