Do chipped beaks regrow?

[TinyTimneh]

Ugh... I can't believe Sully has had yet another injury... the poor tiel's been through enough... two leg wounds, a bitten off toenail and now this... I feel terrible.

 

I was clipping her feathers and when I released her she dove off the counter and ended up crashing onto the bathroom floor. When I picked her up, there was blood in and on her beak. I'm actually pretty impressed that I didn't panic but my first thought was she had some internal bleeding and this wasn't good. Wiping away the blood, I saw that she had only chipped a part of her upper beak, like a milimetre or so off the tip, really a tiny wound thankfully. She was acting fairly normal and actually tried to climb around and forage when I returned her to her cage. I covered up her cage and when I checked on her about two minutes later (went looking for quikstop) the wound had stopped bleeding.

She actually wanted to snuggle... what a sweetie.

This morning aside for some dried blood here and there, she's back to normal, and actually dove into her food this morning. Disaster averted.

 

Does anyone know if the injured tip will regrow/heal/fall off? She seems fine but I want to know if there's anything I should look out for while it gets better.

[Dave007]

If the chip was on the tip, yes it'll grow back just like any other beak that constantly grows. It'll grow back and as all parrots do, she'll be filing it as usual. Eventually, you won't see the chip.

if the chip was on the side of the beak, it may not look perfect for quite a while but it'll smooth itself out unless you're bird has had a permanent inperfection of the beak like the lower mandible growing upward and covering the tip of the upper mandible. That's a problem that starts at birth.