The beak at parrots is the cornea covering jaws from external and inside. It serves birds for crushing and crushing of food, construction of a nest, cleaning of plumage. The important value has a beak when turning eggs during their incubation and feeding of baby birds therefore it is necessary to watch its state and to be able to help a bird in a case.
Features of a beak
All parts of a beak consist of a bone tissue. Parrots have a tendinous sheaf between a skull and bones of a beak that allows them to move separately nadklyuvy. Depending on a species of parrots, their way of food, fitness to the environment, they can have differences of appearance of a beak.The cornea at a beak constantly grows and is displaced to edge, thereby all cracks and damages gradually disappear. Completely corneal layer is updated within six months. By means of the receptors located on the end of a beak, parrots distinguish heat, cold, feel touches and forms of objects. In order that the parrot watched purity of a beak, the special surface about which it will clean a beak from the remains of food is necessary for it and to erase surplus of a keratin.
Possible problems with a beak and their decisionsThe beak at parrots can expand, at the same time it is necessary to check whether it is fragile or fragile. If result positive, and at the same time outgrowths are observed, so the tick is the reason, such disease is called knemidokoptoz. It is very simple to treat him, it is enough to carry out full disinfection of a cage and to use means for processing of the affected beak. Perfectly the aversektinovy ointment or vaseline oil offered in all veterinary pharmacies will approach for this purpose. In case of lack of outgrowths, liver diseases (poisonings, tumors or infections) are possible. It is necessary to include vitamin complexes in food of a parrot: vitamin A and With, biotin, folic and pantothenic acid, mineral substances and calcium. These minerals interfere with softening and thereof, to changes of structure of a beak at a bird. It is necessary to provide to a parrot special devices for grinding of a beak. Mineral stones, special poles, sepia, branches of trees or bushes can be them whether at the same time it is necessary to track the bird uses them. The positive impact will be made by addition of a food allowance of a parrot with solid grain and an exception of it of the greasy food leading to diseases of a liver and problems with a metabolism. Growth of a beak can be a consequence of blow of a bird to them about glass or hormonal failures. In such cases the beak needs to be cut accurately, otherwise it will reach such sizes that the parrot will not be able independently to eat. Process of cutting needs to be carried out very attentively not to cut off more than necessary. As a rule, the expert that there was no bleeding has to do it and the painful wound at a bird did not develop. Defects of a beak can be congenital, owing to a bad incubation of eggs, or acquired at ptentsovy age. During manual feeding of baby birds, they can injure easily a beak because it at them soft also is in a formation stage. Such defects can be adjusted at baby birds. At adult birds, it is possible by surgical intervention by means of the experienced veterinarian.