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Urgent HELP!! BROKEN TAIL FEATHER!?

RipTweety

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Tweety is in between laying batch's of eggs & she's been running around the cage like crazy & she's been losing some feathers & her tail feather last night looked like it was going to fall out (she always has 2 tail feathers at a time) so I was waiting for her to clean herself & finish getting the tail feather lose but she hasn't lost it or picked at it & now looking at it it looks like its broken 3/4 of the way up!? What do I do!? Do I pull it or no? This hasn't happened before WP_20180521_13_26_08_Pro.jpg WP_20180521_13_26_14_Pro.jpg
 
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Birdbabe

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Leave it, she'll pick it off herself.
 
iamwhoiam

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Hopefully it will fall off on its own or she'll pull it off. Try not to pull it although if it is causing her issues/bothering her you may have to do that.
 
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Leave it be, she'll take care of it herself.
 
RipTweety

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iamwhoiam said:
Hopefully it will fall off on its own or she'll pull it off. Try not to pull it although if it is causing her issues/bothering her you may have to do that.
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I took her in the bathroom & steamed her so she would clean/fix her feathers & she avoided cleaning/touching her tail. She chips like crazy & seems to be happy besides when she goes to fly & doesn't fly straight :(
 
RipTweety

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Well she ran around enough to brake off the 3/4 part of it so now she has about a 1 inch stub & half of a tail feather that's growing in
 
Hotpockets

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It'll stay like that until she molts, so you won't see a new feather until the old one falls out but she'll be okay.
 
karen256

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Don't pull it. If it's annoying you or her, just snip it off at the break with scissors.. or she will probably chew it off there on her own eventually. She won't loose the stub until the next molt.. meaning she will be going around with just 1 long tail feather for a few months, but she will be fine. Pulling a large feather like that is painful and runs the risk of damaging the follicle, causing ingrown feathers later.
 
Catherine89

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I would leave it like everyone else stated. I leave them on my teils when it happens to them and they will take care of it
 
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