{"id":93430,"date":"2020-10-01T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windycityparrot.com\/blog\/?p=16706"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T19:26:10","slug":"how-do-i-introduce-a-new-budgie-with-clipped-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/?p=93430","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Introduce a New Budgie With Clipped Wings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Joyce D. is seeking:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I&#8217;m looking for a cagemate for my female budgie after the recent loss of her male partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">One likely young bird has had the long feathers on his sides clipped by Petsmart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Will he be able to fly normally again and would this affect the two birds&#8217; getting acquainted?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">How long will it take his feathers to grow out again? <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bBXRAW4cOQ\" width=\"1195\" height=\"672\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Dear Joyce<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">When introducing a new bird to the cage you want to equalize the playing field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">A new young bird that is clipped put into an established bird&#8217;s cage could be problematic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Remove the older bird from the cage and move the toys, perches around some so the cage appears new.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Then put the new bird in, followed by the older bird. They should be equal now.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Since the new bird is clipped, you may want to clip your bird as well so you don&#8217;t have the older bird being aggressive and chasing the new one around.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But you can decide after they are together a bit and see if there is a real need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Make sure you have lots of perches and ways for the clipped bird(s) to get to food and water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Otherwise, everything should be fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Replacement of the clipped feathers can take weeks to a year before they are molted and regrown in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I hope this helps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Catherine<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce D. is seeking: &nbsp; I&#8217;m looking for a cagemate for my female budgie after the recent loss of her male partner. &nbsp; One likely young bird has had the long feathers on his sides clipped by Petsmart. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[196,197,205,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-behavior","category-bird-enviornments","category-budgies","category-flight"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phcfkq-oiW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.windycityparrot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}