Scissor beak help

[FeatheredLizzie]

Hi all, I'm new to this forum but I really need some help. I have two parrotlets, one of which is a rescue.

My rescue, Buddy, seems to have scissor beak. I was taking him to the vet to get it trimmed fairly regularly (3-6 months depending) but the last time I took him in they gave me an information paper essentially saying that this process is so stressful that if I continued to take him in regularly he would likely die in their clinic mid-treatment. So now I'm at a bit of a loss... To add: he is on a mostly pellet diet with some seeds and has so far refused veggies. He has a cuttlebone and a variety of other perches and toys, he HAS successfully broken off his lower beak when it gets overgrown before but I worry what happens if he doesn't + I worry about him doing damage breaking it off himself, what if it breaks wrong and cracks too far up or something? He is still eating and drinking, I've been trying to weigh him but he isn't hand tamed so it has been difficult, he hasn't visibly lost weight but I know that isn't reliable so I'll keep trying to weigh him. But it doesn't look very comfortable. Any advice?

 

[DonnaBudgie]

I believe the reason they gave you that information sheet is to protect themselves from liability IF your bird died during a trim. I do not think it's true that beak trim stress is cumulative, meaning each beak trim adds to the overall stress until the bird hits its stress limit, has cardiac arrest and dies. And I had a much loved budgie die during a beak trim while watched. My budgie's beak overgrowth so fast I had it trimmed every few months. I later learned rapid beak overgrowth is caused by a liver disease and nothing much could be done.