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Casper's 2nd best friend
If his beak needs doing as well we take him to the vet so that Casper can hate him instead. Doing just his nails, one of us usually gets nipped so I thought I would ask what others do. I expect that the smaller the bird the harder it is, although they are not as strong they wriggle a lot quicker and you are afraid of crushing them.
We have all sorts of abrasive perches but they don't seem to work with Casper. His beak was allowed to become seriously overgrown before he came to us, almost touching his throat so now it is a bit tricky to shape without hitting a blood vessel. Another reason why we let the vet deal with it.