Budgie unable to fly

petbirds101

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Good afternoon, I’ve had my budgie pearl for about a year now and i’ve never clipped her wings shes always been able to fly around my room just fine and shes housed with my other budgie tinko when i let them out this morning she immediately flew to the floor and couldn’t fly up only climb on the cage i noticed she was missing all of her flight feathers on her right wing i really dont know how this could have happened. I think she’ll be fine since she can still get around in her cage and her feather will be back in a while but this was just so strange because i found a few of her feathers at the bottom of the cage that seem to be her flight feathers that all came out from the root. Does anyone know why this might have happened? or what i can do to help her?
I’ll put some pictures down below of her normal wing and her right wing along with the feathers i found.
 

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I've heard of that happening with cockatiels when they have night frights, my cockatiel Ryuk has lost 4 flight feathers at once during a night fright. My budgies have had night fright too, so I assume they could loose their feathers too.
 

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Like perhaps smacking that wing too hard?
Yeah I guess so, at least they'll all come back at the same time, could be stressful of the bird though, may need a bit more calcium to help.
 

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