Berry’s wings!

[reeb]

When I got Berry, the breeder clipped her wings without asking for my permission. He did a really bad job too, only leaving the two longest primary flight feathers on both wings, and cutting everything else. She just plummeted to the ground whenever she tried to fly.

It was a very long process (around 14 months), but she has finally grown back her wing feathers. She still has one cut feather that has yet to molt on her right wing, so hopefully that will follow soon.

I thought I would share some pictures of the progress.

She first molted and grew back the feathers closest to her body. Then, her primary flight feathers. And finally, the feathers that make up the middle part of the wing.

October 2017 (don’t have a picture of her wing in full, but you can see that only a couple of primary flight feathers were kept) she was 4 months old when I brought her home.

February 2018

June 2018 (crazy how she was such an agile flyer without a third of her wings!)

December 2018

 

[EllenD]

I absolutely despise that kind of wing-clipping, that's typically what they call a "show-clip", if it's done properly, and the problem with it is exactly that, getting them to grow back in correctly with the outermost 2-3 Primaries allowed to stay at full-length, and trying to get the rest of them to grow-in and be at the same growth as the natural molting of the ones left at full-length...If you're going to clip your bird's wings that's fine, totally your decision, but do it in such a way that they can glide to the ground and not drop like a stone, and so they will all grow back in at the same rate, together, and within a couple of months maximum...

It looks like your Tiel is doing great despite the bad clip...At least they clipped BOTH wings and not just one side, that's when you can end-up with permanent damage to their spinal columns, their muscles atrophy on the side that is clipped but not on the side that isn't, etc.

 

[GaleriaGila]

You go, Berry, you go! That last shot is gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LaManuka]

Berry is such a pretty girl, so good to see her in full feather!

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Now I'm thinking of trying to photo BB like that

Nice job Berry!!



Jim

 

[Laurasea]

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When I got Berry, the breeder clipped her wings without asking for my permission. He did a really bad job too, only leaving the two longest primary flight feathers on both wings, and cutting everything else. She just plummeted to the ground whenever she tried to fly.

It was a very long process (around 14 months), but she has finally grown back her wing feathers. She still has one cut feather that has yet to molt on her right wing, so hopefully that will follow soon.

I thought I would share some pictures of the progress.

She first molted and grew back the feathers closest to her body. Then, her primary flight feathers. And finally, the feathers that make up the middle part of the wing.

October 2017 (don’t have a picture of her wing in full, but you can see that only a couple of primary flight feathers were kept) she was 4 months old when I brought her home.

February 2018

June 2018 (crazy how she was such an agile flyer without a third of her wings!)

December 2018

Some gorgeous photos!!! Love the new wings, and the obviously well loved gorgeous tiel! Very cute budgie too!

 

[FlyBirdiesFly]

Berry is gorgeous! You go, girl!! Her wings are beautiful! So happy she can fly now

Just for fun, here’s a photo of Ducky spreading her wings:

 

[LaManuka]

That last shot of upside down Berry ... I used to have a female cockatiel called Kang who would do that on the edge of our dining table leaving only her ... erm ... bum ... visible to the lucky diners at table ... not very ladylike but it was her fave party trick when we had visitors!

 

[ChristaNL]

Wow, that is a wonderfull transformation to see!


(Wow flying with that little wingspan, are you sure she is not part humminbird? )