How do I clip my parakeet's nails?

I have noticed that my parakeet’s nails have become longer than what they should be. He used to do a pretty good job of keeping them shorter using his little gritted ledge, but now they are growing. What is the easiest way to clip these? Is there an easy way to tell where to clip them so they don’t bleed? Weeble isn’t one for a lot of human contact, so I am thinking this may be difficult. Also, his beak is becoming too long as well. However, I have researched this, and it says this should not be at home. The bad news is that there are no avian vets in this area, and I don’t know if I would trust a regular one. Are there any tips to helping trim this down? Or should I take him in?

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Answer #1

Rather take him in, you could really easily cut it too short and cause them to bleed to death.

A regular vet should be able to at least advise you on how to handle the clipping or what to do.

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