Urgent Bleeding Beak

[chelsbird]

Hi, hopefully someone here can help a little. I have a parakeet that has this ball-like thing on her beak. I noticed it a few days ago but couldn’t do too much at the time. Now a couple days have passed and it has started to bleed excessively. I have another parakeet in the same cage and was wondering if I should move the other one in the meantime. Does anyone know what to do? Anything would help, thanks.

 

[Shezbug]

Has the bleeding stopped?

 

[sunnysmom]

Can you post a picture?

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

Where are you located? We can suggest a vet in your area.Sounds like it needs to be seen. Can you attach a good photo?

 

[chelsbird]

Within the day it didn’t bleed and when I checked up on her, she was bleeding. I’m in North Jersey, I do think that she needs to go to the vet, but hopefully until then I can help somehow

 

[sunnysmom]

Yes, please take her to the vet asap. Is it still bleeding? Do you know what happened?

@Mockinbirdiva ? @Mizzely ?

 

[chelsbird]

It’s not still bleeding, and no sadly I don’t know what happened.

 

[Mizzely]

Oh she looks miserable I'm glad to hear the bleeding has stopped; the vet would be my next move!

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

I see the tail of another bird in the cage. What kind of bird is it? Yes, that's a pretty nasty wound and definitely needs to be seen. You mentioned a bump that was there. Was it on the beak or the cere ( the part above the beak where the nostrils are located). Could this be an injury from a toy or from the other bird?

 

[chelsbird]

The other bird is also a parakeet, and I doubt it’s from her. It’s on her actual beak not the cere. I also don’t think it’s from one of the toys as I don’t think one of them would be sharp enough or hard enough to do that to her. But I’ll definitely try to take her to the vet, because of the wound she hates being handled.

 

[Lady Jane]

Its highly likely your bird will need a wound cleanse by a vet and prescribed antibiotic plus possible pain management.

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

The other bird is also a parakeet, and I doubt it’s from her. It’s on her actual beak not the cere. I also don’t think it’s from one of the toys as I don’t think one of them would be sharp enough or hard enough to do that to her. But I’ll definitely try to take her to the vet, because of the wound she hates being handled.

If you have a separate cage I'd probably isolate her from the other bird to keep her from possibly picking at it. Have they been out of the cage and flying this past week? I agree with @Lady Jane. It does need to be cleaned and treated. Probably will prescribe an antibiotic to prevent infection and also give you pain medication for her. It looks like it could be painful. There's a good bit of blood on the perch and her right toes... are those injured at all? Take a hard look at everything in her cage to see if there may be a source of an incident. Can we see the whole cage too?

 

[Mizzely]

Toys can hurt them in ways we cannot predict, for example some of the metal hangers available can pierce or get caught on the beak. Other birds can also deliver pretty significant injuries to each other!

 

[Mockinbirdiva]

And.. if you can without too much stress to her.... take some more photos of the injury with better lighting.

 

[chelsbird]

If you have a separate cage I'd probably isolate her from the other bird to keep her from possibly picking at it. Have they been out of the cage and flying this past week? I agree with @Lady Jane. It does need to be cleaned and treated. Probably will prescribe an antibiotic to prevent infection and also give you pain medication for her. It looks like it could be painful. There's a good bit of blood on the perch and her right toes... are those injured at all? Take a hard look at everything in her cage to see if there may be a source of an incident. Can we see the whole cage too?

I have tried to take her out yesterday so that I could possibly clean it off too. But that was after she got the “bump”. The blood by her feet is when she had rubbed her beak against the perch, possibly to scratch it or get rid of it. I’m not home at the moment so I don’t have a picture of the whole cage. But, I do have this. I have to clean the cage, as I fear she might get an infection. Nothing else seems to be an incident spot. Also, since it slowly grew over the past couple days, I don’t think there would be, but I’ll definitely check.

 

[chelsbird]

And.. if you can without too much stress to her.... take some more photos of the injury with better lighting.

I will definitely try!

 

[Peachfaced]

Omg, that is one bad wound.

Toys can hurt them in ways we cannot predict, for example some of the metal hangers available can pierce or get caught on the beak. Other birds can also deliver pretty significant injuries to each other!

Those hooks on the ladders can do it, too. I had one Budgie get himself pinned by the neck between one of those hooks and the cage bars. He was panicked and if I hadn't been home, I fear he would have broken his own neck trying to free himself.