fid fanatic
Sprinting down the street
Hi all! Long time, no post. For any of you who remember, Leonidus is doing great, except he just got his right wing feathers all twisted up. He's never done this before, and I don't know how he managed it, but the blue and black are now facing opposite directions than usual. He won't let us help him get them right. He won't spread his wing. He's just sitting there with his cock-eyed feathers pointing toward the ceiling and bites at them every so often. He's acting normally otherwise. Has anyone ever had this happen to their Ekkie or other bird? What should I do? I'm thinking he will figure it out and fix them himself. Or am I being too hopeful?
He managed to get 7 of his flight feathers tucked down into his wing (entering from the top) and then up underneath the bottom and back through the top. They were wrapped and twisted - no idea how he did that. The vet at the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital said they'd never seen a bird do that before, and they think he has an abnormality in his 'wrist' bone that allowed him to twist into that position. He was immediately happy when he woke up and found his wing to be normal again. Sweet boy. 
