Sad to say, Koko had an accident on christmas day :( Its claw got stuck on my shirt and it went into a complete panic. It started flapping its wings like mad and due to that, one of its blood feathers broke D: There were blood on the floor. When we thought the blood has already clotted, Damien put Koko on my bed and yes, there was blood on my bedsheets! We read online that we have to remove the broken blood feather pins because it will act like a straw sucking the blood out. When a blood feather is broken, a bird can bleed profusely and die. So we took a tweezers and tried to pluck the feather out. Hoping it was the broken blood feather. Because there was too much blood and with Koko struggling out of our grips, 3-4 feathers were wrongly plucked out. Those mature feathers with no blood in the pins. I was the one holding the bird down and spreading its wing out, while Damien pluck the pin feathers. Anyway, we tried to wash the blood off so that we can have a better look. The whole toilet looked like a crime scene in the end. Blood droplets on the table, mirror, wall and even my face D: The toilet stank with the stench of rust. To cut everything short, yes we managed to find the broken blood feather and pluck it out. We used corn flour as a pro-coagulant to help stop bleeding; in other words, to play safe. Damien was trying to be stupid and in turn, spilled the flour all over the floor. A real genius =.= Popped Koko back into its cage to rest after the traumatized period. Anyway, Koko is alright and still with us :) We have learnt how to handle a broken blood feather and didn't have to bring Koko to the vet and spent $150 on it!
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