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Blood Feather ... Or A Breakage

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Can a budgie pinch or squeeze a blood feather without breaking it completely ? Without it dripping blood ? Just showing that the area is damaged a little ?

 

My Hen ( who's too fat to fly ) ( cause she's wing clipped also ) Decided to go for an adventure & "PLOPPED" down on the floor. She hit the carpet with a thud like a rock & hurt her wing. She babied the wing & checked it off & on for an hour or more fluffing & preening. So I checked her over & I noticed a few small feathers under her upper wing were red in a small area. It looked like there was blood in the area. But not dripping blood. Nothing is broken. That was 3 days ago.

 

Much to my dismay my trustworthy Avian is on a Vacation for 2 weeks. So there is nobody I can see about this.

 

In the meantime ... the hen is still attempting to fly ... '' DANG YELLOW ROCK WITH CLIPPED WINGS '' She seems to be perfectly normal & doesn't show any distress. She is singing & playing & hopping around like nothing ever happened. When I looked at the area that I swore was forming blood, I see nothing wrong, it's clean & clear. It's like the accident never happened. She is EATING as always .... like the Salad Bar & Buffet is FREE FOR ALL ... nothing new there .... ( ALWAYS EATING !!! ALWAYS !!!!! )

 

So ... again Can they squeeze or pinch a blood feather ? Should I be overly worried ? Is there anything I should be looking out for ? Another week & a half till the Avians back.

:ygbudgie: Hopefully the experts will be on here soon, have only had blood feather problems with my cockatiels, hello, all budgie breeders................... :D

They can break a feather yes in a bad landing, I would keep her in a quiet, not able to fly around for at least 2 days and keep her warm so if she did more injury then a few broken feathers and sprained the wing instead she can recover.

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Well ... so far so good. She is continuing to act like nothing happened.

 

She isn't nursing it. So I am beginning to stress less. Man ... I can't believe the gray hair I am getting from owning 2 birds that are less then 6 inches long each.

 

My next pet will be a rubber chicken. Less stressful. I can leave it & go on trips & not worry about feeding & water & cleaning the poopers from the bottom of the cage. And rubber chickens are more quiet. Compared to the Weebil ... it would be a great change.

 

Why ... WHY DO THEY MAKE US LOVE THEM SO ??????????????

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