poor little junior. i posed a month or so ago about his cracked beak, and, at first, the vet wanted to wait for it to grow a bit first. i took him back into the vet today, who deemed that his beak had grown out enough that he could dremmel (sp?) the first little bit off of it. i was anxious to hear what might possibly have caused the crack (which had become two cracks), and after going over husbandry, it turns out that my boyfriend and i -- well, we probably baby him too much.
see, i've always made his food into little tiny pieces for him, and the vet said that this way, he isn't really using his beak for tearing and chopping like he should, which is how his lower beak got a bit overgrown, which made it catch and snap against his upper beak at times (which i guess caused the crack itself). whole leaves and fruit from now on!
the beak trim was a 3-person job -- my boyfriend held his body and his front legs back, i held a plastic wedge in his mouth to keep it open, and the vet kept a grip on his head and dremmeled a bit off his lower beak. he was quite upset, and when it was all over with, he marched right over to the dremmel tool and bit it. revenge!
also, i was surprised to see that in the past month, he's gone from 700-something to 800-something grams! quite a stretch from the 60-something he weighed on his first checkup.
hopefully next month we can get the rest of that crack off, and in the meanwhile, let him *use* his beak! 
