Oh poor baby!!! Blood feather? That's what they are called. Popcorn got one of those like 2 years ago, but when I went to get a tweezer to pull it out, I came back to find he had pulled it out himself and had a huge smile across his face! LOL! It happened after a night fright. Thank God I have never had to tweeze one out..........that would freak me out. Even though my birds are very tame and I can hold them in any way I want without them protesting, I would worry about doing it wrong and hurting them. It is VERY important to pluck a blood feather out when it bleeds though. I'm glad you were able to do that.........but poor, poor little Twilight!Quote:
Originally posted by K9soul
Poppy, I had an incident with Twilight recently that probably took years off of both my life and hers :o. She suddenly got frightened, I don't know what set her off but she flapped around the cage and I ran to see what was going on. Well she busted a new wing feather coming in.. you know what they call a bleeder? The new feathers still have blood in the quills. I had to do something I've never done, and it had to happen to the girl who is most uneasy around people. She's always been so bonded to Dusk.. Well I had to use a towel and get her, that terrified her more. Then I had to use tweezers to pluck that feather so that the bleeding would stop. She was ok after, but the poor thing was so terrified and I just hated doing that but it had to be done.
