Sentences with phrase «feather shaft»

The most common injuries birds sustain are usually broken toenails, bills or blood feathers — a new feather shaft growing out that still has a blood supply going into it.

The damaged feather shaft must be pulled out quickly.

If the feather shaft broken is one of the larger feathers, such as the flight feathers at the end of the wings, it can bleed very heavily and quickly cause a serious problem.

At the very least, they need to carry a towel to wrap the bird, some strong tweezers or a hemostat to pull out a broken blood feather (a new feather shaft that will bleed like crazy if busted) and some styptic powder for pets to stop any bleeding, usually from a broken toenail.

Most broken blood feathers are fairly easy to identify, as you will be able to see the blood coming directly out of the feather shaft.

If you are able to identify a broken blood feather, the feather shaft must be removed from the bird's skin to stop the bleeding.

The same is true of a feather shaft.

Like pulling a tooth, be sure to yank out the feather shaft strongly and quickly in the direction that the feather is growing.

Once the feather shaft has reached its full size, the blood supply that nourished it during growth is cut off, and then the shaft opens up to show off the beautiful and colorful feather inside.

Scientists from the University of Southampton have revealed that feather shafts are made of a multi-layered fibrous composite material, much like carbon fibre, which allows the feather to bend and twist to cope with the stresses of flight.

Since their appearance over 150 million years ago, feather shafts (rachises) have evolved to be some of the lightest, strongest and most fatigue resistant natural structures.

A feathered shaft stuck out of its chest.

Not exact matches

What's more, the shaft (pointed end) of the feather could poke the pillow ending up with pricking the child's face.

The study also revealed phosphorus along the main shaft of the feathers in the fossil: palaeontologists had long thought that only impressions remained.

And if they weren't necessary for survival, perhaps shafted feathers were used for activities only adults would engage in, like mating behavior.

After looking through the ornithology literature, Therrien says, the team concluded that the spacing of the dark marks looked very much like the distribution of the large, shafted feathers on the wings of an ostrich.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

But the idea that they could have had a use in communication is neat: we have very little insight into the social behavior of dinosaurs, and if more finds produce evidence that shafted feathers grew exclusively on ornithomimid adults, then paleontologists might be able to craft a theory that focuses on communication and signaling.

If that's indeed what they were, it would suggest not only an earlier origin for such shafted feathers among this group of dinosaurs, but also a new interpretation of their purpose.

He is not completely sold on the evidence for shafted feathers — though he does find the comparison to the patterns of ostrich feathers apt.

Using five specimens of Confuciusornis from two museums in Germany, the researchers measured the lengths of the primary feathers and the diameters of the rachis, the long, thin shafts that make up the backbones of the feathers and which are analogous to structural beams.

That's because, he says, the fossilized shafts of the feathers of early birds are often not well defined, making them difficult to measure accurately.

Cutting a feather too short can damage the shaft and cause irregular growth of the new feather.

These are brand new shafts of feathers, and they still have a blood supply.

Stress bars are small lines that run horizontally across the shafts of a bird's feathers.

They are new feathers that are actively growing and have a blood supply flowing in the shaft.

Using the tweezers, grasp the blood feather firmly at the base of the shaft, close to the bird's skin.

The shaft of the feather is filled with blood, until the entire feather is mature.

Styptic powder can also be used on smaller broken blood feathers, which are brand new feathers that are growing out in a shaft and have a very good blood supply going into them until the feather is fully developed.

When it matures, the blood recedes and the shaft opens to reveal the feather inside.

This shaft has blood in it while the feather is growing out.

The large flight feathers on the ends of the wings and the tail have very large shafts, so they can bleed profusely if broken.

If the broken shaft can not be found easily, clean the area with hydrogen peroxide to find the broken feather.

Blood feathers are developing feathers that look like shafts.

«Vetericyn can clean the nail or shaft where the feather was removed prior to applying a clotting agent such as styptic powder,» says Tabitha Cromer, marketing communications and trade marketing manager for Innovacyn in Rialto, Calif..

This should include something to wrap around the bird like vet wrap, a long towel to stabilize a hurt or broken wing, hemostats or strong tweezers if a blood feather (a new feather where the shaft still has blood in it) needs to be pulled, and styptic powder to stop bleeding from a broken toenail, blood feather or cut.

Until these feathers have matured and the shaft has come off, pet owners and store employees should always look out for these new feathers and avoid them when trimming a bird's wings, since they will bleed just as strongly as a broken feather if cut.