Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Pin-Feathered Birds

real good advice on an age old problem..

 

YOU think MY mounts are excellent??? Wow, that makes me feel like I'm doing something right! . I've been slacking on posting my bird pics lately...need to get back into it.

 

Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Pin-Feathered Birds

Matt, you are the man! Thanks for sharing. This information is really helpful to us beginners!


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Hmm.. How did I get tricked into this? . I'll pm and let you know soon Matt.

 

Great tutorial Matt - thanks!

 

Attention beginners!!! Here is your bible on how to deal with pinfeathered birds...Great post Matt.

 

For those that have been up to their eye balls with "Pin-to-many" this is great. I would suggest this be moved into the "Tutorial" section as a great reference tool.

 

Thanks for sharing!! this should go in the tutorials section...so , the rule of thumb with pin feathered birds is caution and patience.. what a bout gluing back the lost feathers??

 

Elmer's school glue works just as well and doesn't soak through near as bad as super glue... plus it can washed off if need be.

MOTT

 

If it's a tail issue where a lot of the feathers aren't fully formed, I like to mount the tail separately and glue all of the feathers to a piece of stiff card stock or poster board. Sometimes it's necessary to include the coverts too, especially if you have to "fudge" the amount of overlap in order to hide the gaps.
This is an early season blue grouse. *sigh*

The salvageable tailfeathers have been stripped out of their sheathing, cleaned, and glued in place.

The larger tail coverts have been glued in place after painting the card stock to help conceal it. Amazingly, this bird didn't need it, but I have had some that were so bad that I had to steal some random rump feathers and glue them into the tail assembly to cover the gaps.

The under coverts are a mess too. All must be plucked, stripped, cleaned, and glued in place.

A "U" shaped wire was hot glued to the card stock before the under coverts were added but I forgot to take a picture.

Now it's ready to be attached to the bird.

 

a little ingenuity, and wha la! A tail is born from the ashes of a dust mop!

MOTT

 

dang nancy and KMA....wish I could be a fly on your work walls...lol..I would get swatted I know but this post is great..

 

I'm glad KMA doesn't mind that I poked my nose into his thread, but I also agree that his thread should become a tutorial and I figured it would be best to have similar subjects in the same place.
Plus, the title is perfect!