Hello,
I tripped over something while going over to the bird's cage and the noise sent my girl into a frenzy. She's been in the process of regrowing all of her flight feathers and lost almost all of them one one side, except the biggest one which broke instead. I've been staying at my parent's place for a few days so when I saw the blood, I ran to get pliers, towels and my mom. We pulled the feather out and found a second one while checking her over so we pulled that one too. Unfortunately, the process took a little while as my mom was panicked and unable to handle a thrashing bird and even when I told her to take care of pulling the feather instead, she kept backing out for fear of hurting her. Not the best partner for that intervention but my options were limited.
She seems okay now and I gave her some food from my hand which she accepted, but she's lost a fair amount of blood and seems lethargic and shaky now.
Is there anything else I could be doing to help her in this situation? The vet isn't an option. The only one that accepts birds around here is in no way qualified to treat them. The one time I went there, my bird left in a worse state than he arrived and I literally had to tell her what to do when she broke my boy's blood feather. She literally looked me in the eye and went "I don't know what to do with this".
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I tripped over something while going over to the bird's cage and the noise sent my girl into a frenzy. She's been in the process of regrowing all of her flight feathers and lost almost all of them one one side, except the biggest one which broke instead. I've been staying at my parent's place for a few days so when I saw the blood, I ran to get pliers, towels and my mom. We pulled the feather out and found a second one while checking her over so we pulled that one too. Unfortunately, the process took a little while as my mom was panicked and unable to handle a thrashing bird and even when I told her to take care of pulling the feather instead, she kept backing out for fear of hurting her. Not the best partner for that intervention but my options were limited.
She seems okay now and I gave her some food from my hand which she accepted, but she's lost a fair amount of blood and seems lethargic and shaky now.
Is there anything else I could be doing to help her in this situation? The vet isn't an option. The only one that accepts birds around here is in no way qualified to treat them. The one time I went there, my bird left in a worse state than he arrived and I literally had to tell her what to do when she broke my boy's blood feather. She literally looked me in the eye and went "I don't know what to do with this".
Any help would be greatly appreciated