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| 701.1 | THOSE BLOODY TIELS! | BRAT::BOURGAULT | | Thu Jun 18 1992 13:46 | 12 |
| 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
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| 701.2 | | SELL1::MCETTRICK | | Mon Jun 22 1992 10:15 | 3 |
| Is everything okay now?
Wen
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| 701.3 | Know a good painter? | GERBIL::MAGEE | | Mon Jun 22 1992 11:59 | 5 |
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Every thing is great except for the walls 8-)
thanks for asking- Chet
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| 701.4 | | LEPTON::WIMMER | | Thu Sep 10 1992 15:16 | 8 |
| 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
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| 701.5 | Pulled the wrong feather! | MYGUY::LANDINGHAM | Mrs. Kip | Tue Jan 12 1993 12:41 | 7 |
| 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?
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