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By yesterday evening Coconut hadn't picked her ingrown feather out so I sterilized some tweezers and a dull tapestry needle after I went out and bought a bunch of first aid stuff I thought we might possibly need just in case (styptic swabs, peroxide, alcohol, neosporin etc.) In the end it was super easy to get out with tweezers, I just lifted ingrown end out of where it was stuck under the skin. There was a small nodule left, probably small pieces of the tip of the feather casing which I figured she would pick out on her own. She cleaned up the dead skin around the feather sheath but to my surprise she did not pull the feather out at the follicle nor did she pick out the nodule which has since "ruptured" cleanly and scabbed. However, she has opened a small wound again, no where near the ingrown area. When G gets home she's going back in the collar. Kind of a bummer as I had hoped if she did mutilate it would be because of this feather problem which she could probably have taken care of better than myself.
She has spent almost 72 hours out of the collar completely and has been without a collar on during the day since last Saturday which is excellent. Her most recent wound is superficial enough that it probably will not involve major scabbing or sloughing of skin so hopefully a few days in the soft collar will have it healed up and we can repeat the process again.
She IS getting better about a lot of things. In spite of being collarless, her screaming hasn't been too out of control. Today she was ecstatic to get in the shower. She has been very clingy with me today, not wanting to be away from me even on her favorite perches, but otherwise she has been behaving pretty much like a normal, healthy cockatoo which is wonderful and I have LOVED coming home to a happy, beautiful well adjusted bird.
She has spent almost 72 hours out of the collar completely and has been without a collar on during the day since last Saturday which is excellent. Her most recent wound is superficial enough that it probably will not involve major scabbing or sloughing of skin so hopefully a few days in the soft collar will have it healed up and we can repeat the process again.
She IS getting better about a lot of things. In spite of being collarless, her screaming hasn't been too out of control. Today she was ecstatic to get in the shower. She has been very clingy with me today, not wanting to be away from me even on her favorite perches, but otherwise she has been behaving pretty much like a normal, healthy cockatoo which is wonderful and I have LOVED coming home to a happy, beautiful well adjusted bird.