Hello everyone!
I have endured several years of my sun conure being incredibly clumsy, and as a result, fractured/broken blood feathers amuck! At first we were extremely worried about them and would pull them out immediately more out of fear than for logic's sake. However as the years have gone by, we've realized they don't seem to be as big of an emergency as the internet has made them out to be?
Everywhere I look the internet is riddled with the mentality about how you "must remove the feather immediately or they will die!" However whenever he has gotten one removed from the vet or I have spoken to them, it is not treated as an emergency in any capacity unless he was losing a lot of blood (which I thought he did once, but was then told I wasn't even close to a concerning amount.)
We have become pro's at noticing signs for concern (not eating/drinking, weight loss, amount of blood loss, listless behavior) though we have not encountered this when he fractures a feather. Just yesterday, he got really startled and fractured two! Both stopped bleeding within ten minutes and he has been energetic, constantly eating, even regurgitating hormonally! While the area is slightly tender for him, and he sometimes removes the clot, though if I just leave it be and simply monitor it my parrot goes on as if nothing is bothering him!
What are peoples thoughts on the matter? Understandably this doesn't apply to baby birds, my conure is 9 years old! The only article I have found that relates to the mentality we have adopted is this one: What to Do About A Broken Blood Feather | BirdSupplies.com
I have endured several years of my sun conure being incredibly clumsy, and as a result, fractured/broken blood feathers amuck! At first we were extremely worried about them and would pull them out immediately more out of fear than for logic's sake. However as the years have gone by, we've realized they don't seem to be as big of an emergency as the internet has made them out to be?
Everywhere I look the internet is riddled with the mentality about how you "must remove the feather immediately or they will die!" However whenever he has gotten one removed from the vet or I have spoken to them, it is not treated as an emergency in any capacity unless he was losing a lot of blood (which I thought he did once, but was then told I wasn't even close to a concerning amount.)
We have become pro's at noticing signs for concern (not eating/drinking, weight loss, amount of blood loss, listless behavior) though we have not encountered this when he fractures a feather. Just yesterday, he got really startled and fractured two! Both stopped bleeding within ten minutes and he has been energetic, constantly eating, even regurgitating hormonally! While the area is slightly tender for him, and he sometimes removes the clot, though if I just leave it be and simply monitor it my parrot goes on as if nothing is bothering him!
What are peoples thoughts on the matter? Understandably this doesn't apply to baby birds, my conure is 9 years old! The only article I have found that relates to the mentality we have adopted is this one: What to Do About A Broken Blood Feather | BirdSupplies.com