May be wise to have your bird examined by a avian veterinarian, and have the broken blood feather removed to prevent re-injury and another bleed. If a broken blood feather is removed, a new one will start to grow. Have you any idea how it got broken ie do you need to take any steps to prevent it happening again?
well, she complains about her right wing (right side from birds perspective) a lot, her feathers don't look very well. She had a feather most recently split down the middle and was hanging and it bothered her till I clipped the split part. When she preens her right side under her wing she sqwuaks sometimes as if she hit a sore spot. I've attached a photo, she wasn't very happy with me trying to get a picture but you can see the feathers look ragged. She otherwise seems in healthy condition I feel maybe she over preens that area?
she may be starting a molt maybe this is why her feathers are in such disarray?
to answer your question, when the feather broke she had taken a dive from her high perch to come see me. She cannot fly even though most of her flight feathers came back in. When she tries to fly she contorts her body to one side it looks awkward and just kinda lands roughly then waddles over to me. This time she made a heck of a noise when I picked her up and I saw a feather hanging down barely hanging on. it was broke, with some real gooey bloody stuff on the end. I tried to get the whole feather out but I was not able to. I don't believe it was broken before she came down to see me, so she must have somehow damaged it when she tried to fly.
I'm afraid after closely looking at her wing feathers that something is wrong. eek. Boomer goes in for a checkup on Monday so I think I'll take Jazz too.
