I have a cockatiel with a little nub as a leg. She keeps pecking and it bleeds.what can i do other than a vet?

Question

she won't let me touch her without biting but i can pick her up with a glove.

Answer 1

the only thing you can do is going to the vet.here's a small story about are parrot.we had a senegal parrot named dakota. well he kept on pecking under his wing and it would start to bleed. so we thought it would be a small thing and he would stop soon, but he didn't. we took him too the vet and we were on are way to are new house, like, 800 miles away so the vett put a plastic thing on his neck (but not to tight) so he wasn't able to peck at his wound. but the day after we got at are new house he died, because we took him to the vet to late.

Answer 2

put a nbandage or a healer on i i would prefer taking it to the vet

Answer 3

Take her to the vet, you lazy animal-neglecting moron.

Answer 4

You could try to put a little bandage on there.  That's really the only thing you can do unless you take it to the vet.

I hope I helped!

Answer 5

Sorry but VET.  When you have a pet you take on the responsibility for their health and that means seeing a proper vet (in this case avian) when need be.  Birds can also bleed out very quickly and die.  You really need to bring her to see a vet, or you'll need to rehome her to someone who will.

Answer 6

You don't say if the wound was a recent thing of if it had been this way for a while. you will need to take a plastic note book divider and make a cone collar like they use on dogs. It will be hard for the bird to get to the food but you can take care of that. Leave it on there until the leg heals.  I would guess that the reason that she is picking on it is because she is still feeling the pain signals from the nerve endings. A bird like this is a perfect example of why some animals need to be put down. I try to think like they are still in the wild and what would happen if we let things take their natural course. This is the major fault I have with people trying to save every crippled bird, dog or cat that is born. They all are not supposed to live.

The crippled and the lame are not supposed to make it. Most are the example of faulty genetics. We as stewards of the animals we keep are bound by the laws of nature. We are to keep the breeds we choose to breed and propagate as strong as possible. This doesn't happen when we start pampering the cripples. Then someone breeds out of them and it is passed on. I prefer to raise healthy specimens. "The weak shall perish and the strong shall survive."

You  ought to go buy a book about the care of cockatiels. You don't catch a bird with gloves on. Every bird has a innate fear of a glove. Even domestic bred birds are scared of the glove. You need to learn how to take care of a bird, specifically cockatiels. You can find books cheap on Ebay. I bought one last week on Yellow Crowned Amazons for $1.95.

How do you ever expect the bird to trust you and be a true pet? The glove isn't the way to go about it. I had a lady come last winter to purchase a hand fed baby Yellow Nape Amazon. I asked her if she would make the bird step up while she was here with me to help the little parrot in her transition to a new house. She comes out of her box with a welders sleeve made out of leather and a pair of lineman's gloves. She had done counted out the $1,200 on the desk in the bird room. When I saw her going for the gloves I told her that I had changed my mind. She wasn't ready for a YNA and I wasn't going to let her mess up the wonderful parrot that she wanted to buy. They got mad and huffy about it. They had drove like three hours to get here. It didn't matter, I wasn't gong to send my tame little baby to a home where they were going to treat it like that. It wasn't a wild caught bird. It was done trained to step up/down, to fly to my out stretched forearm. It could sing a couple different songs had another 25-30 word vocabulary.  She was to nice of a bird to sell to someone who didn't know a thing about the bird. It is important to buy a book about the breed of bird you have so you know how to properly deal with it.