Birds are susceptible to many health conditions, from vitamin deficiencies to respiratory infections. Yet, scissor beak is among the most obvious because it’s a clear deformity of a bird’s upper and ...

Beak treatment is the physical removal of the top and bottom part of the beak of a bird. It is commonly practised in commercial layer flocks to reduce damage caused by birds to each other later in ...

It is not just humans who can do with the help of braces when growing up. The University of Queensland's veterinary medical centre at Gatton has been fitting macaws with so-called birdie braces to ...

An outbreak of aggressive feather pecking and cannibalism in a flock of laying hens involved in a government-backed trial could derail plans to ban beak trimming in the UK as of 2016. Twenty flocks ...