Any help or advice greatly appreciated.

 

I have a chick about 10 days old in a box with no sibblings. Its beak has turned black & its cree is an angry purple. It is putting on weight & apart from maybe breathing a bit heavy looks healthy.

 

Should i take it out & bathe the beak, if so with what ? Should I remove it & try to hand rear it ? I have no clue as I have not seen this before.

Stendorosa

here is one of mine at three weeks black beak have you got a picture so we can have a look!

I will try & take one tomorrow as it dark now on the east coast , it is in an avairy outside. So this could be normal ? It does look infected though.

well here is a baby six weeks old with the same at about ten weeks it goes back to the normal shade of brown

If its infected the bird will not last very long at such a young age but most of mine that had the black beak are alive today

Ye baby budgies have blak markings on their beaks and it vary by how much each time. But just be sure it's not poop stuck on the beak becuase this can deform the beak and possible kill the chick.

a few of my chicks have had black on their beeks. usually the tips. i've never had one all black like in homers picture.

 

 

*edit*

i came home and looked at the pics, the beeks dont look as dark now!

Edited March 7, 200619 yr by Thirtyfive Black

Came home from work today to find chick dead. There was definately some sort of infection in its beak. Any clues on what it was &hiow best to combat it for future reference. The box was clean as only 1 chick, no signs of poop on beak,im clueless.

I'm sorry I haven't hear of something like that. A bacteria could have gotten into th beak and started to erode it away (kinda like Gangrene) But I really don't know, if you have other chicks on other boxes keep a close eye on them, and if your worried take chick and at least mum to the vets. If your going to use that box again I would give a good scrub out first.

 

I'm sorry for you loss.

so sorry to hear the chick died maybe i should have told you to take it to vet straight away but if it was infected and at such a young age the vet might not much good anyway

I have never seen this in a chick might be a good thing to take it to the vet maybe they can do an biopsy on it

if its a virus it could spread to all your young

I always scrub my boxes with disinfectant and only use them 3 times and they buy new ones

hope the other babies are okay and all the best.

im so sorry to read this

rip little chick

Thanks for your thoughts and concern, hopefully the problem will not reoccur.

 

I enjoy tapping into your wealth of knowledge regularly even if I don't post much

 

Cheers

Stendorosa