sweetpeamusic
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Nico came back yesterday from a 2-week stint at a trusted bird-sitter and has been having feather issues since. When he came home I noticed his head was absolutely covered in pin feathers, most of them still in the blood-feather phase. He is definitely itchy and all he wants to do when heās out of his cage is have me scratch him, he wonāt play with toys as much as usual in his cage either. Heās been preening a lot and Iāve noticed that heās pulled out a few healthy looking feathers (minimal stress marks, still looks relatively new, but the shaft is white/translucent all the way through). Otherwise heās acting normal, his poop looks fine, heās eating his veggies for once, and his schedule is much the same as before he went to the bird-sitterās.
My questions:
Is he going through his first molt? He is about 10-11 months old.
Should I be concerned about the healthy-looking feathers that heās dropping/possibly plucking? Is he just stressed out from going to the bird-sitterās?
Should I be expecting puberty soon?
My questions:
Is he going through his first molt? He is about 10-11 months old.
Should I be concerned about the healthy-looking feathers that heās dropping/possibly plucking? Is he just stressed out from going to the bird-sitterās?
Should I be expecting puberty soon?