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hello all, i hope you can help.
i recently bought a greencheeked amazon that had gotten outside in the middle of december, the owners found him a couple days later. im worried about his beak, its jagged and it looks like its peeling, wich ive never seen before.the owners said its because of being frostbitten. is there anything i can do help it repair itself? should i worry about it breaking? he eats really well so i dont think hes in pain because of it.

I have heard of beaks being jagged, cracked or peeling but never in any connection to frostbite. The beak is heartier than most of the fleshier parts of the body and would not have become frostbitten before the bird had other frostbite say serious enough to lose toes, leg etc. Instead this is caused by poor diet and possible injury. Poor diet will cause the peeling of the beak and sometimes the jaggedness is caused by having no toys or wood to naturally wear the beak down on. I would take your amazon to the vet and get a blood work up done to see just how serious the vitamin deficiency is and to see if the beak needs to be grinded down by a proffessional. Then if you haven't already change the diet to healthier foods to help build up the vitamins and make your bird healthier.

Just a quick add on, I talked to our vet and he has never heard of a case of "beak frostbite" although has heard of many losing toes and legs, one even lost a large portion of the leg and we live in Missouri where we get quite a bit of snow and cold weather.

Sorry large portion of the wing (my typing got ahead of my brain LOL!)