Elsa

Hello, sorry I didn't see your post before. Yes he has been grinding it, it seems similar to what my old budgie used to do when he saw me coming with silver beet but he does it more often. Will that help restrict the beak growth?

He does look more like Kitch than the other pictures, how fast will the beak grow?

I'm in Tasmania so I can't get him up there, what do you think I should do? I did ask the vet about trimming the beak, she said if the beak got any worse she would but she didn't think it was necessary like it is now. She also said to make sure he had cuttlefish.

Do you think I should wait for a while and see if there is any difference with the beak? He's eating well and seems happy.

It was an avian vet, I took a bird to a normal vet and wasn't that impressed so I was careful this time. She showed me where there were these little squiggly kind of bumpy bits on his cere and said that was from them. Does that sound like mites?

Hi, just to let you all know, we've been to the vet and it turns out that he has scaly face mites, that have been causing abnormal beak growth. So the vet gave him some ivermectin. Because he can hull his seeds she said that his beak doesn't need trimming and just to make sure he still can and in a few months his beak should grow back in the right shape. Thanks.

Yeah, I'm okay with adult birds in breeding condition, but otherwise I've no idea. I'm going to post pictures of all the budgies later in another section, i've put them to bed already tonight.

Yes, I was just guessing with the "she." Thanks for your help.

Thanks, so will she be okay if the vet does that, and will she be able to eat properly until I take her?

Hi, I've just got some new budgies and the bottom of one's beak seems to kind of go over the top, it looks like it might be infected as well. I wondered if anyone knows what it is and what I should do? I'm trying to add a picture.