Sydney had a bad day:(

[fishstick600]

So had a nice day planned for sydnet. Bath follwed by fun with the blow drier then play time and catching up with preening..buuut that was inturrupted my sydney falling on a tile floor and breaking his beak

I was scared to death..he was bleeding pretty good so I called my vet as soon as it happened and rushed him over. Luckily the bleeding stopped and the vet said he looked to be alright. He gave me a few silver nitrate sticks in case I ever need them. On a side not he said he was very healthy

Right now he is resting and prob getting over a very stress event. I hope he doesn't get scared of baths now

 

[Pinkbirdy]

Im so glad things went ok [that must have been scary ?} Im going to have to get some stuff to be prepared for that. [Ive seen more and more posts where this happend to others]

 

[Jtbirds]

Had the same incident recently with my harlequin macaw but the blood flow was way to good and it was late at night and no vets open so I had to cauterize the beak.... So sorry it happened to you, and I must say I've heard blow dryers to not be so good for the birds you may want to look into that.

 

[fishstick600]

Oh yeah I was really worried on the drive over. He swallowed a decent amount of blood and regurgitated he breakfast. I haven't heard that about blow driers ill look into it

 

[MagegrayWolf]

Something I've found that seems to help with beak health is egg and sesame seeds. They contain something that improves beak health. My conure will often get a cracked looking beak (common with sun conures) If I feed him egg and/or sesame seeds it will usually clear up in a couple of weeks. Maybe a little of that will help during recovery. Also egg being nice and soft might be easier to eat with a broken beak.

 

[ShellyBorg]

Some blow dryers have a Teflon like coating in them, not to mention plastics that give off fumes when supper heated. I can no use them as they cause bad head aches.

 

[fishstick600]

Just an update if anyone cares lol
Sydney is doing Just fine now..he was back to normal the next day and eating fine. I was worried he wouldn't want to eat but seems like he's eating well

 

[SolarCat]

I'm so glad that Sydney is doing much better! That must have been quite a scare!