911 Wing injured and bleeding

[allie136]

My budgie must have had an accident while inside her cage because I saw she had a feather stuck on her beak, I pulled it off and noticed a little blood on it. Then inspecting her I saw blood had dripped off her wing onto her side and when she stretched out her wing a little I could see an injury with about a 1-2cm area of blood just underneath the edge of her wing.

I don't know what happened, but she was fine 5 minutes before that and had been out of the cage for a while earlier and didn't see anything. So either she fell in the cage onto a toy awkwardly? or could she have pulled out a feather which then bled?

She seemed fine in herself immediately afterwards, but as a precaution I moved her into a quiet dark room and removed her toys for an hour. She is now breathing heavily and shaking slightly, like shivering?

Could it be shock? I know losing a small amount of blood to us, can kill a small bird so I'm concerned but she's perched and awake seems okay otherwise. I didn't take her out the cage to get a closer look at the wing as don't want to stress her out.

Any advice?

 

[Karen]

Yes, please take her to the vet so the wing injury can be assessed, possibly sutured and they can administer pain meds and any other supportive care she needs.

 

[Birdlovesme]

I agree with @Karen
Take her to a vet before it becomes worse, or affected. Parakeets don't have much blood in their body, so small amounts can greatly affect her.

 

[iamwhoiam]

Definitely take her to the vet. Hope she will be OK.

 

[Lady Jane]

How is she doing?

 

[birdfamiliar]

If I remember right, losing twelve drops of blood is fatal to a budgie. Go straight to an emergency vet!

 

[birdfamiliar]

Hey, is she doing alright?

 

[allie136]

Thanks for replying but I didn't take her to the vet because she was still perched and behaving okay otherwise, plus it wasn't actively bleeding it had stopped by itself.

I'm not sure what has happened but I took her out the cage later on, had a closer look at her wing and saw there is blood through a big flight? feather. The same thing has now happened on the same feather on her other wing too! What causes that? I've seen people mention blood actually inside a feather before and don't remember it being too serious, or something you do anything for....it just happens? Did she cause it herself by pecking at it?

She's still fine in herself today, eating, tweeting, perching, I let her out her cage today and she was flying around as normal, so I'm not too worried.

 

[LunaLovebird]

It's how feathers grow in. While they're still developing they have a supply of blood inside the keratin sheath where the feather is growing. The blood goes away as they finish developing. It's perfectly normal, but a broken blood feather can be dangerous. I believe the correct course of action is to pull the feather out if it is broken like that and continues to bleed.

 

[Harleyandme]

Hope she is okay

 

[allie136]

Thanks I will leave it alone as the bleeding stopped. Maybe the broken feather will fall out by itself in time. Hoping I didn't cause it to happen myself, she can be difficult to get back in her cage so I use a sheet to grab her in.

 

[iamwhoiam]

It's good that the bleeding has stopped. Sometimes broken blood feathers will clot on their own but many times one needs to stop the bleeding with cornstarch or Kwik stop or the feather needs to be pulled.

 

[StarrySkies]

You should take her to the vet. Losing a teaspoon of blood is fatal to a parakeet... It would be very sad if she died.

 

[iamwhoiam]

How is she doing?