reeb
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When I got Berry, the breeder clipped her wings without asking for my permission. He did a really bad job too, only leaving the two longest primary flight feathers on both wings, and cutting everything else. She just plummeted to the ground whenever she tried to fly.
It was a very long process (around 14 months), but she has finally grown back her wing feathers. She still has one cut feather that has yet to molt on her right wing, so hopefully that will follow soon.
I thought I would share some pictures of the progress.
She first molted and grew back the feathers closest to her body. Then, her primary flight feathers. And finally, the feathers that make up the middle part of the wing.
October 2017 (don’t have a picture of her wing in full, but you can see that only a couple of primary flight feathers were kept) she was 4 months old when I brought her home.
February 2018
June 2018 (crazy how she was such an agile flyer without a third of her wings!)
December 2018
It was a very long process (around 14 months), but she has finally grown back her wing feathers. She still has one cut feather that has yet to molt on her right wing, so hopefully that will follow soon.
I thought I would share some pictures of the progress.
She first molted and grew back the feathers closest to her body. Then, her primary flight feathers. And finally, the feathers that make up the middle part of the wing.
October 2017 (don’t have a picture of her wing in full, but you can see that only a couple of primary flight feathers were kept) she was 4 months old when I brought her home.
February 2018
June 2018 (crazy how she was such an agile flyer without a third of her wings!)
December 2018
