I took in Dexter and Mango.
After making a very silly stupid bad and sad mistake I let Mango fly away from me.
He was on my shoulder instead of Dexter. Andhe had become flighted, unlike Dexter.
I will not go into detail, But I did make a good effort to find him. But no luck.
Dexter came to me with feather problems as some may recall.
He has now been with me 17months and we still have a few feather issues.
Life has certainly had it's moments as you will see in the pictures below.
He molts once a year in January / February. So he has had two molts since I took him in.
This time it does look like he has grown in strong tail feathers.
But he still has a spot on his left wing where there maybe some permanent damage, as he does trouble growing in good feathers there.
This molt he got to a point where he could fly (poorly) over a short distance. Before trouble hit again, and he broke a Primary. I balanced him up by clipping two on the right wing. This was almost the end to his flying. As Dexter goes everywhere with me I was dealing with his flight thing, when it came to a head and he broke the last primary on his left wing. Again I stepped in to add balance and clipped his right wing. So we are back to square one and no primaries for another year.
In the time I have had him I have had to deal with three broken blood feathers that were real bad bleeders as well as the stress bars on his feathers when I got him.
The last broken blood feather was by far the worst I have had to deal with. And 20mins and a lot of blood later I got it stopped.
His condition has come a long way., so I am hoping next year will see some decent feathers grow in on his left wing.
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This is the last one and could be damaged by preening not bad growth
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Here is my boy now
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