Hello all... im new here
anyways onto my little bird called lucky. we found him about 1 month ago or a bit more, he flew to our house when we were working outside on yard. so our workers captured him because parrots cant survive outside for the night, it was quite cold during that time. we asked around few blocks but no-one was missing him.
when i was little we had few parrots and i've wanted a parrot for few years now, but our house has a lot of windows, so we never got one. this one seems to be quite intelligent, and he knows what and where windows are... quite strange really.
anyways long story short, i just love him, but probably 1 week ago we started seeing feathers around... i havent seen any in first 3 weeks, but now they are everywhere... i think it is getting out of hand, thats why i need some expert opinion. i need to do something about it.
most of the day he spends on my table, or on my shoulders, and i scratch his head from time to time
his cage, you can see quite a bit of feathers there.
and this below is picture of my table. i gathered these feathers together...
you can see the one on the top is very very big, it was the biggest one that went through his whole body. there were 2, now its only 1 left.
and on bottom right of picture you can see 2 that were on his head. i do not know how those are called, but they are special, not like rest of them, they are for decoration. so i dont think it is just seasonal grooming going on. because these feathers donnt have any flying role. and other feathers dont look damaged either.
and this is his food right now.
he used to have different food for past month. i believe it was good food and if i remember correctly it was picture of nimfa parrot on it.
the problem is that he only ate those little round ones, the ones that he needs to peel. just those smallest little ones. so it just might be possible that he isnt getting enough protein because he only eats 1 sort of them, and not all of them like he should. anyways now we bought this bag that you see, and they dont have any big seeds in them.
he flies enough, we have big house, and his cage is mostly open, except during night, or when windows are opened.
i suspect it might be problem because he is bored? he only has toy in his cage, and that is a bell. but still he is plucking his feathers when he is on my shoulders and on my table... so i mean if he was bored he would just play with me?
while i was writing this long post, i had to stop him around 10 times because he was starting to pluck his feathers. and it is hard to see when he is doing it because he is on my shoulder.
so what should i do??? except for buy him some parrot toys.
anyways onto my little bird called lucky. we found him about 1 month ago or a bit more, he flew to our house when we were working outside on yard. so our workers captured him because parrots cant survive outside for the night, it was quite cold during that time. we asked around few blocks but no-one was missing him.
when i was little we had few parrots and i've wanted a parrot for few years now, but our house has a lot of windows, so we never got one. this one seems to be quite intelligent, and he knows what and where windows are... quite strange really.
anyways long story short, i just love him, but probably 1 week ago we started seeing feathers around... i havent seen any in first 3 weeks, but now they are everywhere... i think it is getting out of hand, thats why i need some expert opinion. i need to do something about it.
most of the day he spends on my table, or on my shoulders, and i scratch his head from time to time
his cage, you can see quite a bit of feathers there.
and this below is picture of my table. i gathered these feathers together...
you can see the one on the top is very very big, it was the biggest one that went through his whole body. there were 2, now its only 1 left.
and on bottom right of picture you can see 2 that were on his head. i do not know how those are called, but they are special, not like rest of them, they are for decoration. so i dont think it is just seasonal grooming going on. because these feathers donnt have any flying role. and other feathers dont look damaged either.
and this is his food right now.
he used to have different food for past month. i believe it was good food and if i remember correctly it was picture of nimfa parrot on it.
the problem is that he only ate those little round ones, the ones that he needs to peel. just those smallest little ones. so it just might be possible that he isnt getting enough protein because he only eats 1 sort of them, and not all of them like he should. anyways now we bought this bag that you see, and they dont have any big seeds in them.
he flies enough, we have big house, and his cage is mostly open, except during night, or when windows are opened.
i suspect it might be problem because he is bored? he only has toy in his cage, and that is a bell. but still he is plucking his feathers when he is on my shoulders and on my table... so i mean if he was bored he would just play with me?
while i was writing this long post, i had to stop him around 10 times because he was starting to pluck his feathers. and it is hard to see when he is doing it because he is on my shoulder.
so what should i do??? except for buy him some parrot toys.
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so he couldnt really fly that much i suppose, but yeh few blocks for sure
