Cockatiel injured wing

My bird was just bitten by my dog and I am unsure of what to do, he is acting fine and doesn't seem to be in much pain but I am, of course, still concerned. I am currently unable to get to a vet as it is 3:30 AM. he has bitten around an hour ago and i've been trying to wash his wing but he doesn't want me to and i don't want to annoy him or possibly hurt him more, What do I do?

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owoowouwu said:

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If it is a blood feather and bleeding out, get someone to help and towel him, extend wing out and find broken blood feather and pull it straight out, don't twist and pull from the calamus (close to the body) and pull the feather straight out in the direction in which it is growing with needle nose pliers, or forceps but if his wing damaged you have to wait to get him check out by the vet, being he won't let you touch area is not good sign. But when my Cockatoo named Baby broke her blood feather and blood vessel sticking out? She landed on wing as she misjudge spacing. When someone close the car door loudly and she got scared and decided to take off and come back around, only problem was she hit the tip of her wing breaking her blood feather in the process. She won't let me touch it and would scream at me if I tried to lifted that wing to check damage. I ended up having to get next door neighbor to help hold her down and towel her.

Your bird could have a broken bone, or open wound under wing from bite and etc. Just watch him carefully. I won't recommend putting water in area as blood is clogged up and you don't want him to start bleeding again? Wash around it, but lightly. Thankfully it doesn't look like he lost much blood. It looks like a broken blood feather, but hard to tell from picture without wing being extended out to see full damage?

Can you possibly take a photo of his injury/wing and post it here so we can see it? Is it still bleeding? How much total blood did he lose? Were you able to get it completely washed-out?

You have to worry about several things with a dog-bite, the first being the amount of blood your bird lost, because Cockatiels do not have much blood at all to spare, with about 2 Teaspoons or less being the maximum before death. So if the wound is still bleeding you need to put corn starch or flour if you don't have corn starch, directly on it and apply pressure. Once the bleeding has stopped, then you need to get it cleaned-out and disinfected, as dog mouths are extremely dirty and contain lethal bacteria that can kill birds. So you want to use some type of antiseptic to cleanse the wound very well...Hibiclens is best, you can buy it at any Walmart or drug store/grocery store, it kills everything and you just dilute it in a little warm water and cleanse the wound out...Hibiclens also forms a protective-barrier over the wound that lasts for about 24-hours so no other bacteria can get in and infect it...So after you cleanse the wound with Hibiclens, you don't want to rinse it out again, you want to leave the Hibiclens on/in the wound and let it dry.

You need to get your bird to a Certified Avian Vet or Avian Specialist Vet ASAP...If you can only get him to a 24/7 Animal Hospital because it's the weekend (I also don't know where in the world you live, so I don't know what you have access to) then that's fine, take him, because they can do an X-Ray to see if any bones in his wing are broken, and then you can have them send the X-Rays to an Avian Vet, and then you need to see the Avian Vet first chance you can. He will probably put him on a broad-spectrum Antibiotic due to it being a dog bite, to protect against a lethal infection setting-in.

Is your bird holding his wing in any unusual way, or is his wing at all "drooping"? If so, then that's a sign that there is an injury to either a bone, muscle, or nerve. And because it's his wing, that's why it's so important to get an X-Ray done ASAP, because the sooner it's taken care of and set/splinted if it's fractured, the better chance he'll have of being able to fly again. But infection is your main concern after a dog bite.