Paula's Bird Grooming

08/13/2026

Bathing helps to soften the keratin sheath that cover new feathers. A good bath also encourages healthy preening!

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10/15/2025

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06/20/2025

This little Quaker girl, Fifi, was rescued about 8 months ago. Her bottom beak was horribly overgrown and as a result, her top beak was misshapen and was tucked into her bottom beak which changed the entire position of her mandible. Eight months and multiple groomings later, we've successfully realigned her bite and we have both bottom and top sections growing normally. She just went to her new forever home where I will continue to groom her and care for her beak! I love what I do!!! Shout out to my friend Sharon who is the best rescue person I know and my friend Jan who gives every one of her birds the very best life possible! Fifi is a lucky bird! ❤️

06/18/2025

This is a new client. At some point, this poor Eclectus girl suffered a terrible injury to her upper beak. It has been broken off above the growth plate which will prevent it from ever growing back. As a result of that injury, the bottom portion of the bill had nothing to oppose it and it had overgrown quite dramatically. I was able to bring the bottom bill back into proportion but it will need maintenance the rest of her life. Despite her disfigured beak, she is able to eat and drink although she'll have a much easier time now.

03/04/2025

Too cute! I love my Quakers!
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02/12/2025

Parrots sometimes use their beaks like an extra hand. They will reach out with their beaks to break a fall by grasping the cage bars or whatever is within reach. If their beak is overgrown, it can break in a bad way causing an ugly traumatic injury with profuse bleeding. When overgrown, the tip of the beak becomes very brittle and can break quite easily. A vessel inside the beak can bleed profusely. Good beak maintenance is an essential part of bird grooming.

12/12/2024

Some before and after pics of some of the most extreme cases I've seen over the years!

09/05/2024

08/30/2024

Heads up parrot owners! West Nile Virus has reared its ugly head yet again in Delaware. I have had several clients over the years that have lost birds to this dreadful virus. My advice is to NOT take your feathered babies outside. PERIOD! If you insist on doing so, avoid cloudy days and dusk into evening. One bite from a virus-carrying mosquito means certain death to your bird. Please be careful!