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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

701.0. "BLOOD, BLOOD EVERWHERE!!" by GERBIL::MAGEE () Thu Jun 18 1992 16:26

    
    As I was typing a privious reply I looked over at
    The Tiels cage and it looks like something from 
    a cheap horror show- BLOOD EVERYWHERE
    
    On the walls. perches, cage floor....
    Yet no blood on the birds. All birds 
    look great! No large feathers on the
    floor of the cage.
    
    Must be at least a hundred tiny drops of
    blood. Any ideas?
    
    Wait till my wife sees this one- YIKES 8')
    
    CHET
    
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701.1THOSE BLOODY TIELS!BRAT::BOURGAULTThu Jun 18 1992 16:4612
    My guess is a blood feather was damaged, either by the bird when
    preening or through flapping its wings.  Tiels do a good job in
    cleaning up their feathers and working them back in place.
    
    You might want to check their feet.  Could be that one hooked its
    claw on something or the other one bit its foot.  I have found this
    happen with my pairs every once in awhile.  Look for a small curved
    cut on the legs or feet, that's a sure sign that it was nipped by
    its mate.  I had a hen that started abusing the male this way out
    of the clear blue.  They had gotten along well before that point.
    
    Denise
701.2SELL1::MCETTRICKMon Jun 22 1992 13:153
    Is everything okay now?
    
    Wen
701.3Know a good painter?GERBIL::MAGEEMon Jun 22 1992 14:595
    
    Every thing is great except for the walls 8-)
    
    thanks for asking- Chet
    
701.4LEPTON::WIMMERThu Sep 10 1992 18:168
    Same kind of thing happened with my teils.  Got up one morning and
    found blood all over the cage, but couldn't find any evidence of where
    it came from.  Only clue was a feather laying next to cage with
    possibility of blood on it.  Finally decided it must have been a blood
    feather which the bird pulled out on his own.
    
    diane
    
701.5Pulled the wrong feather!MYGUY::LANDINGHAMMrs. KipTue Jan 12 1993 15:417
    I came home to that the other night.  Found blood on the side of the
    food dish.  After my emergency with Larrybird some time ago (rushed to
    Tufts emergency room after being impaled by a twist tie), I panicked. 
    Fortunately, I found a couple (4 or 5) feathers in the cage that one of
    the tiels had pulled out.  One of them had blood on the tip.
    
    Why do these birds tug on their feathers like that, anyway?