r/caiques

I just noticed this beak damage on my 5 year old caique. He’s got heart and liver issues and takes several medications including blood thinners.

For the life of me I can’t narrow down what may have happened. I’m very careful with toys but I think he must have gotten caught in one?? I’ll be going through everything he has again in case something slipped thru or maybe he broke a toy?

If you zoom I you can see a small crack.. should I be taking him to the vet or should this be okay to heal up on its own.
No signs it bled but some bruising/blood pooling

Just a normal birb doing normal things.

My partner and myself slept in this morning. Went downstairs to start the day. As I went to get him he seemed very agitated! But stepped up for me and let me put him on his perch area on top of his cage, since then though whenever my partner or myself went near him he would lose his mind growling like you wouldn’t believe, only letting us pick him up/ go near him when he felt like it!! He will cuddle or approach us but the second we respond or move he will growl and lunge for a warning bite (never bit hard enough to hurt bad/ draw blood) he’s about 7-8 months and so far has NEVER acted this way, is he just being a spoilt guy and this is his way of “punishing” us? it has been cold here atm but we leave the heater on low at night so he stays warm and just overall try and keep him as comfortable as possible which probably adds to his spoilt personality. He’s just overall acting very depressed today randomly and it’s breaking my heart completely😢 never sleeping in again!!!!!!!

Picture of our son and the drawings he did on the window with his beak lmfao it looks like a 👎🏾 (proud parents)

Any bay area (california) caique people that wanna meet up in sf or wherever to meet each other’s caiques? And have them meet each other.
Sometimes it feels like me and my caique baby are the only ones here and i know thats not true. He puts up a independent bird front who has the personality and energy of 3 birds combined but I think it can really be a grounding experience for him to see other birds like him with their humans. Silly idea but still worth asking at least, especially if a cool experience could come out of it.