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new canary female

store clerk had said she was laying a lot of eggs.
She laid 1 yesterday.

flying back and forth in her cage hopping up and down flying across almost constantly in the morning yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon taking a bath after wings close to her body and 1 wing look a little bloody on top and could no longer fly.
Standard bath use for all birds.

Vet said slight fracture of 1 wing.

She is now in small travel cage. But she is constantly hopping back and forth and trying to flap her wings.
Only when eating does she stop moving.

I read online fractures common in older birds but she is of laying age.
Also possible due to calcium deficiency which could be due to all the egg laying.
No egg today.

I started her on calcium plus yesterday.
How much calcium?

I'm new in my town, so it was a new vet.
She just said the wing must have been caught on the cage but it wasn't she wasn't listening.
It happened in the bird bath, it is a little small tho 2-3 society finches can fit in it.
Jst hitting the side of the bird bath with her wing shouldn't have caused a fracture tho. I've used this same bath when I had canary long ago and never any problem.
She was in almost a state of shock after the bath.

The wing doesn't look droopy and she has a good appetite.

Why can't she stay still?

She may have been raised in a large flight cage or aviary. Your cage may be too small. What size is it? I keep one bird of that size in a 30" X 18" X 18". Even that would be a big change if raised in an aviary. She may also miss the other birds if she originally came from a breeder with a flock.

Wildbird
She was in a petstore in tiny display case sitting on a nest, with one other canary in same cage sitting on a perch.

I gave her a nest this afternoon but tho she has poked at it with her beak, she hasn't liked it and ignores it.

Is she looking for her missing nest? And eggs?
She laid an egg yesterday, but not today.