Why did you cut the parrot's feathers? In fact, cutting feathers can not only prevent it from flying away from you or hitting a window or wall, but also better grasp its movements. If you need to take parrots out often, it is more important to cut feathers. Pet parrots usually cannot survive in the wild for a long time; He may starve to death by looking for food everywhere. Death from exposure due to lack of shelter, or death from attack by other predators.

As long as the way is right, feathers can look neat and beautiful, and at the same time, they can be safe and control the purpose of action. However, when cutting feathers, blood feathers must be handled carefully. If you accidentally cut the blood feather by mistake, it may cause life-threatening problems. Moreover, it is best for two people to cooperate in feather cutting, and you can seek the assistance of bird veterinarians.

Before you start to cut feathers, you should make sure that the person who cuts your feathers knows how to restrain parrots or how to cut feathers. After fixing the parrot, carefully remove the towel on one side to reveal its wings. Parrots may flap their exposed wings and try to escape. This is the upper part of your wing, that is, the part between the parrot's body and the bent part of its wing. Never try to control flapping wings with a feather.

Once the wings are controlled, separate the feathers to see more clearly; Check both sides before starting work. Cut one feather at a time, not all at once; In this way, we can see the blood feathers that may be missed for the first time. If you see blood feathers, I suggest leaving one feather on each side for protection.

There are different ways to cut feathers, because different varieties may need different cutting methods. If you want to give your family the best parrot, you'd better go to the hospital to consult a veterinarian.

Below I list some common cutting methods:

① The most common method of feather cutting (called normal feather cutting for the time being) is to establish the first five to eight primary flying feathers. If the parrot becomes lighter or can fly after cutting off the first eight wings, cut off the first eleven flying feathers and repeat the same feather cutting action on the other side. When you cut feathers here, you can cut them a little in a hidden place to make sure there are no blood feathers.

(2) Feather-cutting method is used in the performance, so that the parrot can show the appearance of flying feathers without flying feathers. This cutting method will leave the first few flying feathers, from the third or fourth flying feather to the eleventh flying feather. This cutting method is sometimes used to trim parrots for display or performance on movies or TV.

(3) There is even a way to cut feathers for parrots with plucking symptoms. Not many people know this cutting method, but some elderly or experienced bird veterinarians still use this cutting method and it is really effective. When using plucking and shearing method, feathers will be trimmed into V-shaped cuts, which is different from the general straight-line shearing method. One of the reasons why this method is not commonly used is that this pruning process is more time-consuming and difficult. However, compared with the general cutting method, the V-shaped cutting method can reduce the degree of stimulation.

(4) If the interval feather cutting method is adopted, birds will still keep a long flight distance. To use this cutting method, unfold the feathers and trim them at regular intervals.

But some parrots will let you catch their wings so that you can cut feathers without tying them.

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