We gave him steamed broccoli for dinner and he ate some of that. went back up to his high "roost" and was talking some, you know like amusing himself. Then we had our usual training session at 8:45 sharp. He seemed eager for it, but was hesitant in accepting his slice of pie nut for his first trick, th roll over (it's always the first trick). I thought 'that's odd'. Next was a new one, stacking up soft rubber alphabet blocks, and he attempted to pick one up but backed off, like his beak or tounge or mandible muscles hurt. Again, 'hmmm'. Tried another trick where he uses his beak to pick up things, and he was obviously being very ginger and slow in picking them up. So we stopped doing beak dependant tricks and I let him play piano ( done with gusto), playing dead, shaking hands, waving hello, high fiving, and his hoop tricks. The hoops he just walks thru them, he did that part fine, but when it came to his special part, holding hoop up (with his beak) he backed off. And then I was certain that he must have done something to his beak, because thats one trick he will do endlessly just for the fun of it. Last one was his slide, and he walks up the ladder like he's going up stairs, no beak involvement.
I held him and looked really closely at his beak, but I can't see anything obvious. the tip of his upper beak is a bit long, and the outer sheath of horn is chipped off, other than that looks normal to me.
He was more animated tonite for training, last night he just plain refused. Rather than running to the vet tommorow,I think we will keep him under close observation and see if he gets more active like his usual self. A very close eye.