I went out to the cage this morning and found my bird sitting with one wing out. I clipped his wings yesterday but he was fine then.

 

http://users.on.net/~trentt/06172008062.jpg

 

Any ideas?

Mine all do that for a few days after i clip their wings

 

Your bird is completely normal and just getting used to being clipped - I would imagine it feels quite odd for them at first. He would be finding it irritating and i bet his wings are twitching too, They often preen their wings a lot too when they are freshly clipped. It's all quite normal

Edited June 17, 200817 yr by **Liv**

Kewl thanks Liv... He's the first one to do this constantly.... the others did it with both wings but were able to fold them in. This guy has been sitting here like that for a few hours now

 

My partner keeps insisting that I take him to a vet.

Kewl thanks Liv... He's the first one to do this constantly.... the others did it with both wings but were able to fold them in. This guy has been sitting here like that for a few hours now

 

My partner keeps insisting that I take him to a vet.

 

if he can't fold his wing back he might be a bit scared too or he might have his cut flight feathers stuck over the top of the secondary feathers, or he might have an injury from being clipped - Who did the clip??? Did he resist a lot when being clipped???

He can fold his wing back, but once he lands and is stable (yes he can still fly) he likes to bring it back out. I did the clip (I did my other 6 budgies too, no problems there. I held him while my partner cuts). He didnt resist, though I'm a big person, so there is always a chance that I inadvertantly hurt him. I dont think we did the neatest job we could do though. We've done better before.

 

Poor Minty... I'll go check him in the cage now.

 

edit: He's currently feverishly preening his wings. I noticed while he did his left one, he had his right one (the one in the picture) folded back normally.

Edited June 17, 200817 yr by ShadowGhost

Budgies don't usually hold there wings out unless it's sore!

If they did in the wild they'd become someones dinner.

So I dought he'd do that because someone gave him a bad hair cut or should I say wing cut.

But ya never know they are funny things.

 

People do go too far clipping the wings, you only need to remove a section of the secondaries. If you leave the couple on the end it still gives the bird a normal looking wing. Instead of something that looks like a french moult.

 

Edited June 17, 200817 yr by throwback

I was about to ask, how the wing was cut, birds like liv said find it funny after a clipping kinda like us when we get a hair cut too, if they arne't clipped finely they can have problems, the edges of the flightfeathers shouldn't stick out either ..... was their resistants whilst cutting the wing????

Is it possible his wing wasnt held right while being clipped and he has some discomfort ?

the thing is he didn't do this behaviour till the next day, but he stopped after an hour or so, and appears to be just fine now. He didnt resist much during the clip, and I clip in a curve following the base of the secondaries around.

 

I did clip 2 of my birds leaving 2 of the outside primaries, but KAZ told me to cut em off lest the bird breaks them.

the thing is he didn't do this behaviour till the next day, but he stopped after an hour or so, and appears to be just fine now. He didnt resist much during the clip, and I clip in a curve following the base of the secondaries around.

 

I did clip 2 of my birds leaving 2 of the outside primaries, but KAZ told me to cut em off lest the bird breaks them.

 

The clip you did looks great to me. I agree with Kaz. I dont like to leave the outside primary flights eather.

 

If he is fine now, then it was probably just a minor strain or his way of showing some discomfort after the wing clip

Thanks Liv. I'm guessing that too, he's still fine now.

 

I've been experimenting with leaving some of the inner primaries rather than the outter ones. I left one primary I think by the look of it, thought I left two. You can see it in that picture.