Apply direct and moderate pressure to the follicle with a sterile gauze pad for at least 1 minute. Once a clot forms, be careful not to dislodge it. If bleeding does not stop within a few minutes, continue to apply pressure with a sterile gauze pad and take your bird to an avian vet. Click Here to find an avian vet. Broadview Animal and Bird Hospital added the following. The entire feather shaft must be pulled from the follicle in your bird's skin when pulling a blood feather or it will not stop bleeding.
Before pulling a blood feather, find the exact spot where the feather goes into the skin on your bird's wing. You will feel a bumpy spot in the skin. This is where the follicle ends inside the bird's body. To ensure that the entire feather shaft is removed, apply pressure by pinching the wing, right above the bumpy spot. The finger you use to pinch with should move forward in a sliding motion, at the same time you are pulling out the feather with the pliers.
This will force the shaft all the way out of the follicle. You will know for sure that you got the entire feather out if there is a round bulb at the tip of the feather. You can see the rounded bulb in this photo. Wissman cautions that birds with infections, liver or bleeding disorders, may lack the ability to clot blood. These birds may die from bleeding after feather removal.
If you are afraid to pull a broken blood feather, take your bird to an avian vet immediately. If it's very late at night, a weekend or you too far away from a vet, spread your bird's wings and apply Kwik Stop, cornstarch or flour with a Q-Tip dipped in water. Apply sterile gauze using pressure until the bleeding stops. Applying pressure to the site of the bleed will help to slow the bleeding further, or stop it altogether.
The success of this will depend on whether your birds will tolerate being handled. It may be that excessive stress can worsen the situation- so you should take extra care not to cause more distress.
If the bird appears to panic, avoid excessive handling and apply cornflour or icing sugar as detailed above. The bird should then be kept as calm as possible until veterinary help arrives.
Dimming the lights and keeping them in a quiet area will help to keep your bird calm. Even if you have managed to stop the bleeding, you should seek veterinary treatment for any animal which has experienced significant blood loss.
Veterinary treatment usually involves safely removing the blood feather under anaesthetic so that further trauma and subsequent bleeding can be avoided many birds will cause further trauma to themselves if the broken blood feather is left. It's best to take your little guy in and have the vet do the dirty work. If you're able to stop the bleeding, an emergency call to the avian vet at 4 a. Birds like to have all their feathers just right, and if your cockatiel picks at the broken feather during his regular preening, he could open it back up again.
Also, an undiagnosed medical condition such as liver disease can cause bleeding problems with a broken blood feather. Always contact your avian vet if your cockatiel breaks a blood feather, but especially if your little bird is bleeding a lot and seems weak or if his feather broke off beneath the skin. Elle Di Jensen has been a writer and editor since She began working in the fitness industry in , and her experience includes editing and publishing a workout manual.
She has an extended family of pets, including special needs animals. Hold your bird firmly to prevent it from moving around, but not tight enough to hurt it. Keep its head in between your middle and index fingers. Extend your bird's wing or tail to access the blood feather. Removing a blood feather from the wing requires care to prevent damage.
While holding the bird with your non-dominant hand, use your dominant hand to move the towel and expose the affected wing. Now, extend its wing gently using the index finger and thumb of your dominant hand. You can also hold it open with the thumb of your non-dominant hand, but this is more difficult.
Remove blood feathers that are broken and bleeding. Examine the damage of the blood feather to determine if it requires removal. If the blood feather has emerged more than half from its shaft, it's mature enough that it can be saved. Locate the exact spot where the feather extends from the wing. Before pulling the feather, you need to apply pressure to the location on the wing the feather extends from.
You should feel a bumpy spot at this location on the skin. Part 2. Find the stem of the blood feather and grab it with forceps.
The stem is located beneath the feather, extending from the wing. After locating it, grab it firmly using hemostat forceps or needle nose pliers. Take care to ensure they are perpendicular to the direction of the feather's growth. Be sure to firmly grip the stem as close to the skin as possible. Pull the blood feather out firmly and quickly. Make sure that you're gripping the feather shaft—not the flesh—firmly with your forceps.
Start by using your fingers to apply pressure to the skin at the base of the feather where the shaft emerges for about 10 seconds. Now, pull the shaft out in one quick motion in the direction of feather growth. If you're unsure of how much pressure to use, pull a birdcage across a table with one finger—mimic the pressure required for this motion. Don't be afraid to pull! If you don't remove the feather swiftly, you can cause profuse bleeding.
Not only that, pulling slowly will cause more pain and may further damage the feather. Also known as the inferior umbilicus, the tip and its attached feather should be removed from the skin completely. If you notice that the feather broke off underneath the skin line, take your bird to an avian veterinarian immediately. Apply a moderate and direct pressure to the follicle site to stop the bleeding. After removing the feather, a small amount of bleeding at the removal site is normal.
Apply flour, stopping powder, cornstarch, a bar of soap, or coagulant—just enough to cover the site of the wound—to a sterile gauze pad and press it against the skin.
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