Baby Eclectus

[Nader]

I’m new here, I hope I’m posing in the right spot. My fiancé and I are looking into buying an Eclectus. We found someone here in Ontario but there’s a bit of a language barrier. The little guy is about 8 weeks old (hatch date march 30th) and currently looks like this. I’ve looked all over online and it seems like he’s a bit under developed for his age. I was wondering if I could get some opinions from experienced owners, does the little guy look healthy for his age?

 

[Owlet]

His feather development is odd. usually they get roughly all their feathers at the same time but having fully developed head feathers and no body feathers/pins is concerning.

Ask what formula they are feeding... eclectus doesn't do well on most typical formulas because of their sensitive digestive track.

I'd also be concerned about parents plucking.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

His feather development is odd. usually they get roughly all their feathers at the same time but having fully developed head feathers and no body feathers/pins is concerning.

Ask what formula they are feeding... eclectus doesn't do well on most typical formulas because of their sensitive digestive track.

I'd also be concerned about parents plucking.

I watched two videos today about hand feeding eclectus from hatching to fledging because i thought it was odd that his head was turning green but his body was covered with dense brownish grey down. It turns out to be normal but I think the baby is more like five or six weeks old. If you google eclectus parrot chick handfeeding and look at videos there are two I watched. The baby in the picture you posted looks otherwise healthy to me.

 

[Nader]

His feather development is odd. usually they get roughly all their feathers at the same time but having fully developed head feathers and no body feathers/pins is concerning.

Ask what formula they are feeding... eclectus doesn't do well on most typical formulas because of their sensitive digestive track.

I'd also be concerned about parents plucking.

Thanks for the reply, she hasn’t been very responsive to our messages. We

His feather development is odd. usually they get roughly all their feathers at the same time but having fully developed head feathers and no body feathers/pins is concerning.

Ask what formula they are feeding... eclectus doesn't do well on most typical formulas because of their sensitive digestive track.

I'd also be concerned about parents plucking.

Thanks for the reply! She hasn’t been overly responsive to our messages, again there’s a bit of a language barrier there. We are a bit concerned though and will be opting out to look for another breeder to play it safe

 

[Nader]

I watched two videos today about hand feeding eclectus from hatching to fledging because i thought it was odd that his head was turning green but his body was covered with dense brownish grey down. It turns out to be normal but I think the baby is more like five or six weeks old. If you google eclectus parrot chick handfeeding and look at videos there are two I watched. The baby in the picture you posted looks otherwise healthy to me.

We thought that he may be younger but the pictures that she’s sent us have his age in days posted on them which left us confused.