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Urgent broken scruffy wing feathers

mybluebirb

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wow this moult is more stressful for me than it is my parrot :banghead: i’m back again with another question lol

my parrot has been moulting for over a month now and today I noticed she had a broken feather hanging out of her wing, so I checked her wings by opening them up and noticed that both her wings are very uneven and she had a lot of broken feathers.

I gave her a bath and the feather that was hanging fell out. None of the broken feathers look like blood feathers.

Here are some pictures I took (sorry about the quality it was during her bath and she was moving about a lot…)

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is this normal? is it just part of the moult? She’s being her usual self behaviour wise and can still fly (she just prefers not to)
 

sunnysmom

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The broken feathers isn't part of molting. Could she have banged them on something?
 

mybluebirb

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The broken feathers isn't part of molting. Could she have banged them on something?
hmm no she didn’t bang them on anything but a few days ago her wing did get stuck in something for a few seconds before I quickly helped it out, she didn’t get hurt or anything though she’s flapping her wings right now and it all seems normal except for those few broken feathers…
 
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