Hello everyone! Hope you're well.
In late May I adopted a little budgie named Dawn from her dad, who could no longer care for his large flock of parrots due to a promotion at work. Even though I was told she's an adult, about a year old, it soon became clear she was between 5 and 6 months, her irises are still lightening. She was also clipped in the left side - badly, if I can judge. Thankfully, soon she went into moult and many of her clipped feathers fell and came back out, so now she can fly, with a few lessons from Iris, who is an excellent flier. That's all well and good, but it a while to notice that not only was she half-clipped, but they (meaning the breeder, not the man I got her from) had also clipped the claw of her long left toe nearly to the actual toe, nerve and everything. I bought extra thin branches for her to feel safe gripping and she does well on them, preferring those compared to a normal budgie branch, however... the claw doesn't appear to be growing much, if any at all. I'm enclosing a picture of how short it is, but there's no old good one for comparison. In any case, if it has indeed grown, it can't be more than a milimeter. Also, its growth direction seems to be vertical to the toe, instead of tangentially to it. Could the terrible pedicure have killed the nerve and the nail never grows out? It doesn't bother her in the strictest sense, but she has some minor imbalances when it comes to thick branches, compared to my other budgie, who's got killer toes.
Thank you!
TLDR: Could a really short claw trim damage the nerves permanently to the point the nail never grows back?
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In late May I adopted a little budgie named Dawn from her dad, who could no longer care for his large flock of parrots due to a promotion at work. Even though I was told she's an adult, about a year old, it soon became clear she was between 5 and 6 months, her irises are still lightening. She was also clipped in the left side - badly, if I can judge. Thankfully, soon she went into moult and many of her clipped feathers fell and came back out, so now she can fly, with a few lessons from Iris, who is an excellent flier. That's all well and good, but it a while to notice that not only was she half-clipped, but they (meaning the breeder, not the man I got her from) had also clipped the claw of her long left toe nearly to the actual toe, nerve and everything. I bought extra thin branches for her to feel safe gripping and she does well on them, preferring those compared to a normal budgie branch, however... the claw doesn't appear to be growing much, if any at all. I'm enclosing a picture of how short it is, but there's no old good one for comparison. In any case, if it has indeed grown, it can't be more than a milimeter. Also, its growth direction seems to be vertical to the toe, instead of tangentially to it. Could the terrible pedicure have killed the nerve and the nail never grows out? It doesn't bother her in the strictest sense, but she has some minor imbalances when it comes to thick branches, compared to my other budgie, who's got killer toes.
Thank you!
TLDR: Could a really short claw trim damage the nerves permanently to the point the nail never grows back?
