Can Anyone Give me Some Bird Advice?

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Can Anyone Give Me Some Bird Advice here? I Have A Beautiful Budgie, That For Some Reason Wont Use her Scraper Perch to File Down her Beak, And She wont Let us Catch her, she has developed Something Under Her beak. Her Mate A Male Budgie does not have this problem. And we Don't Have An Aviery vet Around these parts. What Can I do About this,? Im Afraid that if this Continues , she wont be Able to eat. Here Is Her Picture, It Shows the growth, its Not touching Her beak, But its directly Under it. what Can I do? Also Have Another Bird that was Given to me that A Sort Of ... Chin? Or deformed beak.. he Is A Green Parrotlett, I Know in the Picture here  her Beak Looks Blocked, But Its Not. But Its A Concern for Me  just the same. She Does eat, & drink, But Its been there for About 2 & a half to 3 weeks, we have Only had her for A Couple Of Months. So Im Very Concerned  About what to do. we had to Catch her with gloves On to take this picture., As She Is Not too Calm. If Its Nothing.. Fine, But better safe then sorry.. what Can I do? Yes I Did Call Vets Around here, & No One is willing to See her As No one Has experience with Birds.. ( How Stupid)..

Erika · Accepted Answer

This is an overgrown lower beak. You need to get a vet to advise you what to do. Normally it needs to be trimmed by a specialist.
It's hard to do yourself because the beak is a delicate organ with it's own blood supply and you can hurt your bird.
Do an online search to see if you can find an online vet that can talk you through what needs to be done. Or use the yellow pages to find avian vets that live far away and who can advise you over the phone.
Another option is if you live near a university you should check out their vetinary department which will probably have someone who deals with birds and/or exotic pets.
I found an avian vet willing to treat my birds at the local zoo once. I went and asked a keeper who their bird vet was.

Your priority must be to get your budgie's beak trimmed.

I am not a vet but my guess at to the cause of the abnormal beak growth is something called fatty liver disease and it is caused by a bad diet. This is very common in budgies. This condition is fatal if you do not change your birds' diet immediately. A bad diet is an all-seed diet.

Budgies (and all parrots) should be fed mainly fruits, vegetables and legumes with only some seed. 
Go here to see what foods are allowed (this is for cockatiels but the same applies to budgies):
http://www.cockatielcottage.net/tablefoods.html

By changing your birds' diets you can reverse this disease if it's not too advanced. Most avian vets will tell you that most sick birds are because of a bad diet.
You must feed them veggies and fruits every day. This is very important, your birds will become sick and die otherwise. Don't be discouraged if at first they don't eat the veggies and insist on eating just seed. Keep giving them fruit and veggies and eventually they're bound to get used to the unfamiliar food.

I hope everything goes well!

Jamieleigh · Answer

What to do when you don't have an avian vet; http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/choosing-avian-veterinarian/

Get her on a healthy diet to keep her beak healthy; http://www.birdtricks.com/naturalfeeding/

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