Jenday Feathers ???

[feathermum]

about how long does a jenday conure take to grow out flight feathers?? and how much of their wing feathers in genral, do they need to get some flight?? tried posting a pic. it won't work!! grrrrrrrr.... i know that it would be easier for someone to get back if they could SEE! anyway...i can try to describe where she's @ now... of her 1st flights, mabey 1 is grown out all the way...the rest are still wayyy too short...someone cut them up to her coverlets she does have more on 1 side, but they are growing...most are lil' pins and some look very pretty but when i checked further i noticed they are still wraped in caseing by the body..since Jan. she's been growing all her feathers back.i was really hopeing she'd be able to fly this summer, but now i'm not so sure...plus her tail is mostly gone, & She JUST started growing that back..my poor,poor girl. any advise?

[Pajarita]

How long it takes them to regrow clipped feathers depends on the number and position of feathers that were clipped. Parrots molt half their primaries one year and the other half the next so, if they had all their primaries clipped, it will take two years for the bird to replace them. But that doesn't mean the bird cannot fly before this happens. This depens on how short the feathers were clipped (I've seen birds with clipped secondaries and even coverts!!) and how strong the muscles got to be before the bird was clipped.

[feathermum]

(I've seen birds with clipped secondaries and even coverts!!) and how strong the muscles got to be before the bird was clipped.

omg!!! how sad! w/ Aroura she was severly clipped & plucked by another bird : ( i don't think she has good muscle use, as far as i know about her past she has mostly just been in a cage her whole life, then when she was around 6mos-1yr they felt bad & put another bird in w/her, & they both sufferd, 1 being a plucker,&the other getting plucked don't understand how someone could that

[Pajarita]

Lord, people do all kinds of bad things to birds. Most of them don't even do it out of malice or lazyness but because they think it's the right thing to do. If the bird was mine, I would let all the primaries grow but I would start exercising it even before that. I have birds that were pinionned (another brilliant idea of humans that messes up birds something terrible) and I do what I call 'the helicopter': I either make them step onto my hand or cup their lower bodies (one of them is a blind tiel and she doesn't step up or anything, the poor thing!) and bringing my arm up high, I let if fall sudden-like so the bird feels that he is falling and starts flapping its wings. It's not anywhere near what real flight would be in terms of exercise but it's better than just letting the bird sit there and do nothing... or, at least, I like to think so.

[feathermum]

I have been exercising her wings, good to know that that will help her someday....& a positive is that she has been flapping all on her own !! I think now it's just time..but a great diet & love & exercise has helped .... it will be an amazing day to see her fly!!

what is pinioned? I don't think i'v herd of that??

[Eric&Rebecca]

I believe pignoining is where they dislocate the birds joints so it can't even flap... basically like dislocating your shoulders so you can't use your arms. People who do that should.... well just stay they hell away from any animal.

[Pajarita]

No, it's cutting off the 'hand' part of the wing which is the little part at the very end (think of the wing of a roasted chicken) and where all the primaries come from. It's supposed to be like a permanent clip but it's nothing short of mutilation. They do it when they are tiny babies and it used to be done to cockatiels A LOT.

[feathermum]

and why aqre these discusting, excuses of "humans" still breathing?!?! 2 things I can not stand...ppl who abuse animals & children...just shoot the bastards,& call it a day.