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Opinions on new feather growth?

Xoetix

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Isadora's wings were clipped before I got her. To me, they looked really ragged and hacked up - But I also don't have experience with clipped wings and what they *should* look like.

It's been almost 6 months having her, and her right wing looks better than her left, but both look... I don't know. Not right. She's had a molt too, and they haven't fully grown in. And yes, the left has a broken feather. It broke during the same panic flutter that she cracked her nail. No bleeding from it thankfully.

Am I paranoid? Does it sometimes take multiple molts?

Right:
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Left:
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From what I know they can take sometimes a yr to grow back fully :cool:
 

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It can take multiple molts as they don't lose all the feathers at once. Elvis had a horrific clip when I got him. It definitely took a while to get his full wings back.
 

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One moult will not replace every single flight feather, so it may take more than the one moult to see perfect wings.
 

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They’re fine.
 
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