richardb658

We have a great vet, as for the trimming that was my fault for not asking or talking enough to the breeder. They butchered his wings clipping 10 flights on each wing and anyone that know Greys or birds for that matter would have never done such a drastic clip.

Yes it is a hard decision and it is not cheap but I am praying Timmy would leave these donor feathers alone as he has never plucked or barbered any feather yet. And even though he did grow his flights in on the left wing he has broken every one of the new ones coming in on the right wing. I have padded the bird room floor, but I guess one of my biggest fears other than him hurting himself with a fall is that he would break another blood feather when no one is at home and he would bleed out

It is more a safety issue here and yes I want Timmy to be able to fly and he is off balance. But he also I guess believes he can fly he will jump off about anything flap hard and fall like a rock. Thankfully he has not hurt himself any worse than a few bruises and broken flight feathers so far but I am so scared of whats going to happen next time I just want him to be able to fly well enough he stops crashing to the floor. IMPed feathers would give support to the new ones coming in.

When you lay the feathers down with the inner side down left wing feathers curve like this ( and right wing feathers curve like this).

We have tried but with no support from surrounding feathers he has broken 2 blood feathers and at least 4 other flights on that right wing, so I am worried that this may be what is required I don't want him to hurt himself from being so off balance.

I am going to get my TAG timmy's right wing imped. He come to me with a terrible clip, 10 flights on each wing, 8 feathers in on left wing no problem but he keeps breaking them on his right wing. We are back to having none on the right wing. Our vet is willing to imp in feathers if I have at least 2 complete sets of the rignt flight feathers from another TAG.....Your help would be so much appreciated thanks in advance to any who could help us.