How to Trim a Bird's Nails

Video Transcript

"My name is Dr. Endre Sas and I'm going to tell you a few words about how to trim a bird's nails. Generally speaking it's very important that when you are doing either nail clipping or beak trimming in birds, you must be fast because many birds are very stressful. And reducing the time of the interruption will reduce stress, thus, reduce some possibility of some deaths in these birds. This problem usually occurs in captivity in parrots and it's very important to manage. Otherwise, can have very serious problems, can cause very serious problems like chronic injuries or rotating nails which even can have very serious digit injuries or can cause very serious digit injuries. So actually when you are clipping the nail or trimming the nail it's very good if you have someone who help you and physically and properly restrain the bird. Then the clipping will take place with bird nail clipper or even human nail clippers can be used. It's strictly if the nail is crooked then you can try to use a flesh line to see where the blood vessel ends. It's much easier in light color nails, birds with light colored nails. So basically if you have an overgrown nail always think about what can be the background for this. Probably the perch the bird is sitting or can be new additional problem or liver disease."