Broken tail feathers

Parrot Parent

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R.I.P. Linius, my Sun conure
Tapa and Tio, Parakeets, Xander 3 month old sun conure
Xander has pretty much gone through all of his nice,long, beautiful tail feathers. I'll be sleeping and in the middle of the night BLAM! I heard a crash in the cage. I wake up and check the parakeets (they push each other sometimes at night lol) then look over at Xander. He climbs up the cage side and I take him out of the cage. I start checking him to make sure he's ok and two tail feathers have broken :( Over the next two weeks he falls down, sometimes breaking a feather, sometimes not. Now his tail looks so pathetic. I've decided to just trim at the break and leave him to molt the rest out. On the bright side I could already see a new feather growing!!! Here are some pics of my Chicken but Xander :)

You can see his new tail feather growing
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suebee

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awww poor xander! perhaps a crash mat under his perch lol but as mike said still a gourgious lookin bird
 

kitt

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Ava(peach faced lovebird) and my very first bird
Leroy (black headed caique) my little moody bird
Dusty (hahns macaw) my clown
Such a beautiful.......is he young that he is falling like that? Thank goodness they weren't blood feathers and before you know it your little duck butt will have beautiful tail feathers again......
 
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Parrot Parent

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R.I.P. Linius, my Sun conure
Tapa and Tio, Parakeets, Xander 3 month old sun conure
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He is only 6 months old, and seems to be very clumsy lol :eek:
And yea I think Xander is still very beautiful too :) I also think that his tail gives him a little bit of character lol :p
 

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