My parrot had a terrible accident

**Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life** · 09-12-2008, 10:48 AM

poor parrot, i didn't realize there was plastic surgeons for birds. how does it work, they just sort of glue it back on? does it heal back to his head or it it just permanently held on by the adhesive?

**MrAwesome** · 09-12-2008, 10:51 AM

thats horrible !

**klaze** · 09-12-2008, 10:52 AM

Flew into a ceiling fan! holy shit that coulda been nasty.

**Meeper** · 09-12-2008, 10:56 AM

I'm assuming it uses it to climb its cage and all that, just from watching them, that's going to put a lot of strain on it, so I would expect to have it fall off unless they are using some kind of super adhesive (I'm assuming they cant use anything too strong because it would harm the bird. That's going to end up being one of those things where you either have to keep attaching the beak or I'm sorry to say, put the bird down. Just what im assuming, but there could be some way to re-attach it more permanently. Best of luck.

**LisaWP** · 09-12-2008, 10:59 AM

I think you'd get better advice on a bird related forum. Why would you ask these degenerates?

**jpwhits** · 09-12-2008, 11:21 AM

this thread is useless without pics

**Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE** · 09-12-2008, 11:22 AM

I suggest plucking all its feathers out and eating it for a scrumptious parrot soup.

**greg1** · 09-12-2008, 11:53 AM

horror...may be your can go to other vet and you can listen his advice on this situation

**Marcus Aurelius** · 09-12-2008, 11:58 AM

I believe a beak prosthetic surgically attached might be an option. I know african greys are not huge beaked like say a cockatoo but this might be a possibility. Probably a very expensive one though.

**Young** · 09-12-2008, 12:02 PM

I just got a 2 year old African Grey Congo. Fucking amazing bird. It's crazy how I have to watch every little thing I say around him.

**klaze** · 09-12-2008, 12:07 PM

A bird uses it's beak for everything.

That bird is screwed.

**czarina** · 09-12-2008, 12:25 PM

her beak should grow back to its normal size in about 4 to 5 months, but in the meantime she's having a hard time eating, since she can't close her mouth.

On the other hand, since this time, when her beak came off after being fixed, it took part of her leftover bone, I'm afraid it will take even more next time.

Angry Jew: they used some sort of acrylic paste that "glued" her leftover beak to the part that had fallen off. When it got hard, it was like actual plastic... then they painted it black, so it looked very natural.

**czarina** · 09-12-2008, 12:27 PM

by the way, I've been feeding her baby food and she's doing OK with that

**majortom** · 09-12-2008, 12:32 PM

My mother did drive over our rare Madagascan turtle with her car, resulting in a big hole in the poor critter carapace. Blood and bubbles...

The vet promptly fixed it with an epoxy compound (no even vet grade) and some fiber glass...

Carapace, nails are made of keratine and can be fixed with epoxy

The beak, I suppose is the same, but much more troublesome..huge pressures.
and the epoxy emit some nasty gases while drying..still I would ask the vet to fix it again.. and keep the bird in a padded cage for a day.

Ain't the beak will grow back? Ask the vet.

Best wishes to you and your bird.

My parrot had a terrible accident

My parrot had a terrible accident

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