VERY URGENT! Broken small blood feather

[marie83]

Right I re-watched said dvd and I've put a link on here for it. Appologies for the bad quality. The clip is presented by G Burkett who is a board certified avian vet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-zmjte ... e=youtu.be

[Andromeda]

Wow, thanks for posting that. Very informative. What DVD is that? It looks worth owning.

I have had a bird certified avian vet pull a feather as a response to a bleeding broken primary but that doesn't mean the method isn't outdated. She said if the blood feather was cracked or broken off and had clotted it could start bleeding again during preening or play which is why she pulled it (and also why I pulled a few myself when it happened at home).

However, I did not know that if it remained clotted in a few days it would just continue to regrow and grow past where the feather is broken and completely seal off the broken area. I mistakenly thought that if it had broken off the feather needed to fall out and regrow again. Knowing this if I get a broken blood feather in the future I will probably just leave it alone once it clots.

I do wonder about a cracked blood feather, though. Once my Poi broke a blood feather but it didn't break off completely; it had a significant crack through the middle which was bleeding. If a feather is cracked how can it regrow past that area (as it has already grown past that area prior to the crack)?

[marie83]

http://www.northernparrots.com/assorted ... prod86471/
this should be the right link but on my phone atm so tell me if its not right. I did a short review as well which should be on the same page.

[Eric&Rebecca]

My avian vet did say it's a contraversial thing but he did reconfirm he would have done the same thing because Eddie kept preening it and even with the cornstarch it never completely stopped. He said it is seen as 'old-school' but he said each case is different. He advises any tail feathers or primary flight feathers to be removed by him personally or assessed for pulling or removal sometimes he doesn't pull them it really depends. Any small feathers he says most of the time he advises the owner to pull if they cornstarch does not completely halt bleeding (which is what happened in Eddie's case).

I guess everyone has their is different opinions on everything. I think we did the right thing removing it because as soon as we did he stopped pulling at it and it completely stopped the bleeding as soon as we pulled it.

[marie83]

Aye, indeed, a case by case approach is definitely best. Wish we could get the gel over here though, seems to do a much better job from what I've heard....

[Eric&Rebecca]

Maybe coud order it on Ebay or something... or perhaps from the vets. I'll ask when George gets his new bird check Our vet uses it in a pen thing.

[marie83]

Not sure what our vet uses, every single time I go I mean to ask.


As far as i can tell the gel can be shipped from america but tbh I'm not willing to pay the delivery charge without any experience of the product.