I have a fiesty 2 year old redfoots who likes to bite things...she will bite rocks, fences, bowls, food slates, people, cats, dirt clods, etc.
She has had a hairline split in her bottom beak for months that has been very solid. I was looking at it today and it seems to be fully broken now and flexes under pressure.
Can anyone advise what they might do in this situation?
I have several years of veterinary experience and I am not squeamish about working on my old animals - or about assisting my vet (she has reptile experience, but isn't a tortoise expert)
Would you leave it? Trim it? Have surgical intervention?
It has not effected her ability to eat to this point, but I fear that it may not wear down properly now that it is flexing and that the crack may not grow out as she literally tries to rip chunks out of her terracotta saucers. (As I type this she is crunching a snail)
Thank you
She has had a hairline split in her bottom beak for months that has been very solid. I was looking at it today and it seems to be fully broken now and flexes under pressure.
Can anyone advise what they might do in this situation?
I have several years of veterinary experience and I am not squeamish about working on my old animals - or about assisting my vet (she has reptile experience, but isn't a tortoise expert)
Would you leave it? Trim it? Have surgical intervention?
It has not effected her ability to eat to this point, but I fear that it may not wear down properly now that it is flexing and that the crack may not grow out as she literally tries to rip chunks out of her terracotta saucers. (As I type this she is crunching a snail)
Thank you