I rescued a 40 year old yellow naped amazon in December 2016.
She's seen Avian vets and has been deemed healthy.
She has some history of self mutilation.
She is Wild caught and was dropped at a vets office and left there so there's no known past history.
A few days ago I noticed one strange feather in her tail that wasn't opening and was beginning to hurt her. Like bad!
I rushed her to the closest Avian specialist and he found another.
He just called them "blood feathers" but obviously they are abnormal as they would have never opened.....
2 were pulled from her tail. (At the expense of 113$)
Pic inclosed .
Now she has a long one on the nape of her neck.
I can't find information on these online as the search of blood feathers, ofcourse ends up in plain, normal pin feather growth and I can't afford 100+$ every growth that occurs!
I'm desperate to know if ANYONE knows about this, as all of my Avian friends as well as myself have never seen nor dealt with anything quite like this before.
HELP!!!!!!!!
Thank you
She's seen Avian vets and has been deemed healthy.
She has some history of self mutilation.
She is Wild caught and was dropped at a vets office and left there so there's no known past history.
A few days ago I noticed one strange feather in her tail that wasn't opening and was beginning to hurt her. Like bad!
I rushed her to the closest Avian specialist and he found another.
He just called them "blood feathers" but obviously they are abnormal as they would have never opened.....
2 were pulled from her tail. (At the expense of 113$)
Pic inclosed .
Now she has a long one on the nape of her neck.
I can't find information on these online as the search of blood feathers, ofcourse ends up in plain, normal pin feather growth and I can't afford 100+$ every growth that occurs!
I'm desperate to know if ANYONE knows about this, as all of my Avian friends as well as myself have never seen nor dealt with anything quite like this before.
HELP!!!!!!!!
Thank you