Blood feather, that's right. I couldn't think of the right term. When I got Dawn, my first tiel, I read several different books on them and so I was educated about what to do if that ever happened, but I was hoping it wouldn't. And then to have it happen to my least person-oriented baby was just the worst. Thankfully, the feather really was pretty loose already. It might have fallen out on it's own or she might have gotten it herself, but I didn't want to take any chances.

I just sat there saying "Oh please God let me do this right."

I don't know who it was the most traumatic for... me or her.