broken flight feather

if you have a bird with a broken flight feather that you want to race , what would you do with it , you can pull the rest of the feather out so it can replace it by growing another that takes 6 weeks , or you can give it a new one , or at least extend what is left , for this you need an old feather cut it down to correct length required , get a pin push the pin into the quill of the feather and then add a spot of super glue to the pin then insert it into the broken feather of the bird hold still a few seconds till the glue takes affect , the bird is now ready to race again ,and it works I did this with a bird on a Monday , sent it to tarbes on the wedensday 728 miles on its return the feather was still intact , and re-maind there till it moulted p.s always keep some old feathers just in case

Tried that repairing thing lol. It didn't work so we just left it and the bird done ok

done something like that before, but didn't use a pin, if I remember correctly I think we spliced the quill and slid them inside each other type of thing, and super glued them......was a long time ago but it was something along those lines..

peel bros wrote:

Tried that repairing thing lol. It didn't work  so we just left it and the bird done ok

you cant of done it properly ray

We didn't haha but we had a go

Good man