GoDieogo
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- Jul 28, 2010
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Hi everyone, I'm a new mummy to a Blue Fronted Amazon called Diego. After a year of researching this species I finally felt confident in adding another member to our family. Diego is 4 months old and has been hand reared, he is very sweet natured although does sometimes have a need to take himself away and be on his own sometimes which we all respect and leave him to contemplate his new surroundings and practice jibbering all of the new things he is hearing his new family say.
My main problem is we recently requested the breeder to come to our house to crop his wings as we have very large patio doors that even my husband has walked into thinking they were open, so I was very worried that he was going to fly straight into the glass. The breeder came along, which up to this point I had a lot of confidence in as all of his amazons were healthy, living in great conditions, and very sweet natured. Although I have never cropped wings myself I do have an idea of how they should be done and was horrified by the way he did it.
Instead of cutting each feather individually he just chopped through them in 1 sweep. He has left the main 2 primary long feathers on, he said as it looks better on the bird. However, I thought that these were supposed to be the first 2 feathers to be cropped. He did not cut each feather at the bottom of each rather than straight through the middle.
After assuring me that he had done it correctly and that Diego would only now be able to flutter down rather than fly, yesterday Diego hit the patio doors. Luckly he is ok but he managed to fly 10 feet with his cropped wings. He has also gone backwards with stepping up as he seems to have lost a lot of balance when moving around. Not just outside of his cage but also inside and is tending to sit on just 1 perch, trying to get to another seems to be very difficult for him and he gets frustrated screeches then gives up.
I'm really worried that this is going to really effect him for the future and am very unsure what to do about it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Caroline
My main problem is we recently requested the breeder to come to our house to crop his wings as we have very large patio doors that even my husband has walked into thinking they were open, so I was very worried that he was going to fly straight into the glass. The breeder came along, which up to this point I had a lot of confidence in as all of his amazons were healthy, living in great conditions, and very sweet natured. Although I have never cropped wings myself I do have an idea of how they should be done and was horrified by the way he did it.
Instead of cutting each feather individually he just chopped through them in 1 sweep. He has left the main 2 primary long feathers on, he said as it looks better on the bird. However, I thought that these were supposed to be the first 2 feathers to be cropped. He did not cut each feather at the bottom of each rather than straight through the middle.
After assuring me that he had done it correctly and that Diego would only now be able to flutter down rather than fly, yesterday Diego hit the patio doors. Luckly he is ok but he managed to fly 10 feet with his cropped wings. He has also gone backwards with stepping up as he seems to have lost a lot of balance when moving around. Not just outside of his cage but also inside and is tending to sit on just 1 perch, trying to get to another seems to be very difficult for him and he gets frustrated screeches then gives up.
I'm really worried that this is going to really effect him for the future and am very unsure what to do about it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Caroline