Moluccan need help how old this

sorry my english

I just bought one week ago.
very tame, yesterday I did wing clipping.
the seller says the age of two years, but I'm not sure.
if you think how old ?

Thank you

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The best way I believe to get an approximate age is by an avian veterinarian, beautiful bird!

CherylCali

Greetings, and welcome to ParrotForums!! I understand you very well!!

That you can clip wings after one week surely means he is very tame!! Your bird seems in very good feather. This is often a problem with cockatoos as they may pluck feathers when unhappy and/or fed an unhealthy diet.

Unfortunately it is very difficult to judge the age of a parrot once they mature. Perhaps a skilled vet can determine age within a few decades, but even that may be a guess.

Scott said:

Greetings, and welcome to ParrotForums!! I understand you very well!!

That you can clip wings after one week surely means he is very tame!! Your bird seems in very good feather. This is often a problem with cockatoos as they may pluck feathers when unhappy and/or fed an unhealthy diet.

Unfortunately it is very difficult to judge the age of a parrot once they mature. Perhaps a skilled vet can determine age within a few decades, but even that may be a guess.

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Scott is very correct!! not like any of us doubted....

Most birds you can only tell the very young and the very old. One of the few exceptions is a Scarlet macaw who actually get 'wrinkles' on their face But even then, its a guess for 'decades' such as Victoria's evil new friend Red is somewhere between 30 and 40 best guess due to his face.

But, for most birds, even bloodwork is not always an answer. For example, my bare eye too when she first came home was not quite 3 years old, but her blood showed very early stages of liver disease, not something a vet would ever expect in what appeared to be a perfect healthy example of a bare eye too. Then on the flip side, you have a bird like Victoria's Kelly who at 33 years old having lived on a crappy seed diet, in a home with multiple smokers and in a way too small cage with one dowel perch, had bloodwork of a young perfectly healthy bird. So, go figure that one!

If you can, take your beautiful new baby in to a good avian vet, have bloodwork done to make sure he/she is healthy and then get her onto a very healthy diet with lots of fresh veggies, and love her whether she's 2 or 20

Side note, if she is only 2 years old, in 3 years or so, you'll definitely know she was very young when she hits sexual maturity If I were you, I'd hope for her to be 10, 15 or 20 and well past that often problematic stage!

Best of luck!!

One clue is that looks like it could be an old quarantine station band around his right leg from being a wild caught. Legal importation to the US stopped in 1992. I'm not sure if you're in the US, and I'm not sure of importation laws elsewhere in the world. Beautiful bird though .

RavensGryf said:

One clue is that looks like it could be an old quarantine station band around his right leg from being a wild caught. Legal importation to the US stopped in 1992. I'm not sure if you're in the US, and I'm not sure of importation laws elsewhere in the world. Beautiful bird though .

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That band had me wondering also, but I recalled that since they are fairly inexpensive they are used in the parrot trades from Eastern Med to China.

The recommendation by several members to have your Parrot seen by an Avian Vet is excellent advise. Please have a full spectrum blood test completed and also a DNA sex verification completed. A complete 'New' Parrot examination is also important to determine the current health or your parrot.

As you look to upgrade your Parrots perches, please consider replacing the dowel perches with natural wood branches (bird safe). This will assure healthy feet.

And, Welcome to the Parrot Forums!

RavensGryf said:

One clue is that looks like it could be an old quarantine station band around his right leg from being a wild caught. Legal importation to the US stopped in 1992. I'm not sure if you're in the US, and I'm not sure of importation laws elsewhere in the world. Beautiful bird though .

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Actually the band is not a given. Many states require a bird to have a band to be adopted. At AHW we order closed leg bands (ours are customized and numbered) and they just get taped to the birds adoption paperwork, but you can still order those type of open leg bands. You can get them in plastic snap on type now too.


And not sure what other countries standards are....

Surgical sexing is one way where age can be determined if the bird is young or quite old. SO if this bird is in fact only about 2, during surgical sexing the testes would appear immature. Whenever we've had one surgically sexed he will tell us if it is mature or old, in the case of hens he can tell us if she has only a few follicles left (old hen), males he can see if the testes have started to mature and produce sperm... this normally wouldn't be terribly helpful, but if your moluccan is in fact only two years old he should appear immature during a surgical sexing.