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He is one of the younger babies (not baby long ago) and Bella's boyfriend.
I saw that top of his head (where yellow crest is) has some blood residue. I spread out feathers and saw that he had some kind of wound on top of his head that is covered with feathers (nothing terribly looking from what I saw but he was kinda wiggly and didn't let me see very well). His behavior seemed to be pretty normal. I was gone part of the evening and didn't see how it happened. When I was looking at it, the wound wasn't bleeding, just some dry blood. I didn't want to dig deep into the wound
Can it be dangerous? I can only imagine that he had a fight with somebody (which is strange, right now my birds are in a rather sleepy mode, not hormonal at all). Or could he hit something ?
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tielfan
Post subject: Re: Sparkle
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 6:26 am
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Name: Carolyn
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It's possible that he flew into something, or that something fell on his head. If he's acting normal then everything is probably OK. With wounds there's always a risk of infection, but the risk is pretty small. If there's a scab on the wound it's already closed off, and there's nothing else to be done about it.
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Chipper
Post subject: Re: Sparkle
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:07 am
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thanks, I think he is all right.
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deebee
Post subject: Re: Sparkle
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:40 am
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Name: Dee
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Could also have been a little pin feather that's been caught on something. Seen it happen a few times with the budgies!
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