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hi all - our girl, Benny, who is 6yo, has what I guess is an overgrown beak. She won’t eat cuttlebone and has been free ranging all summer so not eating on cement slabs like she used to. I know some small diet changes to help her going forward. But is this something we should take her to a vet to do? Our vet looked at her and said they would have to sedate her and seemed confused about the Dracula effect of her beak which makes me a little concerned that the vet doesn’t have that much experience with sulcatas specifically, but then either do I as Benny is our first.
Vet said diet was fine (I disagree) and that Benny needs calcium supplements and a place to soak more often (not sure I agree on that either - her grazing diet is pretty high in water content and we do soak her but not as often as we did when she was little and we did calcium supplements religiously when she was little too but I thought that wasn’t necessary eventually? Told us to do calcium powder instead of cuttlebone if she doesn’t like cuttlebone but I fail to see how that would help grind down her teeth.
I know we have some experts here on this stuff. Should I just have the vet sedate and trim?
Vet said diet was fine (I disagree) and that Benny needs calcium supplements and a place to soak more often (not sure I agree on that either - her grazing diet is pretty high in water content and we do soak her but not as often as we did when she was little and we did calcium supplements religiously when she was little too but I thought that wasn’t necessary eventually? Told us to do calcium powder instead of cuttlebone if she doesn’t like cuttlebone but I fail to see how that would help grind down her teeth.
I know we have some experts here on this stuff. Should I just have the vet sedate and trim?