feathers

Hi everyone! I'm new here (sorry if this post seem repetitive, I haven't really seen a post talking about it happening to another bird?) But I have two green cheeks, Kiwi and Chai In November last year I found out the Chai had been ripping Kiwi's back feathers, not pulling them out, just...

Hey All, I am a new member on this forum and specifically made this account to offer someone a free black capped conure. I own two green cheeked conures and have been recently visiting my neighborhood Petco in Scarsdale , NY (near Yonkers,NY). There I have seen a black capped conure on sale for...

Hello All! This is Lily, she's 5 and I had her since she was 10 weeks old. Her diet consists of Harrisons lifetime Fine pellets ( tried coarse, she doesn't like it) fresh Carrots, Peppers, Broccoli, and cauliflower every day she gets 3 Harrisons power threat per day as indicated on the...

Hi all, Posted a couple of times on the forum since picking my boy Fergus up a month or so ago. Breeder gave him a brutal single wing clip and its been fun and games since. Travelled to a specialist avian vet today to try and sort things and he gave Fergus a feather transplant! The vet was...

I just got my little Nico (Green Cheek Conure) yesterday and he's quite the rascal! I've just got a couple of questions. Nico is super active some of the time (flipping upside down, bobbing his head up and down, walking around) but spends a substantial amount of time with his feathers...

My conure Link is over 2 years old now but it looks like his chest feathers are now turning red. Is that normal for a pearly conure? I hope the attachments work, if not here’s a imgur link! https://imgur.com/a/aeK27 Thanks guys! :green2:

Hello everyone. This is my first post here, so please excuse me if I ask stupid questions, I got my African Grey 3 days ago and I am overly excited :). There are some things that got me worried already. So some introduction. I am a software engineer from Bulgaria and I was dreaming of having an...

Hello everyone I have a eight month old black headed caique and Ive been with him for three months. I recently noticed that he has a small patch of picked feathers, im really afraid and this is my first parrot so any help would really make me happy. Also all of a sudden he wont let me touche him...

My cockatiel keeps breaking her tail feathers. She's attempting to groom them, or she'll have a night fright and bash them on the cage bars. Is it normal for them to be this brittle? I can understand them breaking when she bashes them against the cage bars, but it seems weird to me that...

Hey all, I just put a deposit down on a beautiful baby Amazon for my birthday. I have big plans for her socialization and training but my only concern is that she's been clipped already (at 9 weeks old?!). I feel it is very important to her mental and physical health that she fully retain the...

So i'm a tad worried because my lil fella has been dropping small feathers with a lot of fluff at the base of them. I think they're feathers meant for warmth and the summer season is causing them to drop, but i'm not sure if my hunch is correct or not. I have him on a good diet of seeds, greens...

Last night my new IRN got somewhere he shouldn't and burned his tail feathers. All of them, about halfway up. Now he has a "stumpy" tail. I don't think he was at all hurt, and thankfully his tail was the only part of him which touched the lamp, but I am so worried I have been up all night crying...

So my quaker is moulting her body feathers, and I've noticed that they seem to have a double stem coming from the same root. One stem is entirely down, while one is downy on the bottom but becomes a normal feather on top. I've also noticed that this seems to bother her. She'll preen out the...

I usually come here for help and you always do, so thank you very much for the help so far <3!! So my Lilly sits and snips the end off of some of her feathers, in only 2 patches. On her right wing, and a little on her left neck feathers.... at the moment her down feathers are showing in those...

Hello, This might be stupid, I'm not sure, but I am slightly concerned. My new sun conure Zazu won't preen himself. He won't bathe either. And now his feathers are all disheveled and look terrible. Is this normal? Could it be because he is still settling in? Otherwise, he eats and drinks and...

Hi guys, So, Uglow is now just over six months old. This is his first spring. Three weeks ago I noticed his first colored feather on my arm. tiny. probably a head or upper neck feather. it wasn't chewed up or anything. Fast forward to two days ago, I found another one. Yesterday he lost...

Our Alexandrine baby [we named him Piku] :green1: [I guess 3-4 months old. but I'm not sure] is not cooperating while eating [requiring force feeding], having watery droppings and losing feathers [mainly tail and wing feathers]. 1) We got him 1 month. Initially he was under diet of homemade...

Hello, I have a 3 year old green cheek that seems lethargic tonight. He has his feathers ruffled almost constantly. He is still eating and drinking. Wants to be held close and isn't talking as much as normal. All the vets and avian vets around me are closed right now. Is there anything I can do...

I'm wondering if it's normal for greys to pluck a large number of down feathers in one preening session? My grey is 6 years old and there are always little fluffy down feathers around but last night she pulled out a huge amount of them. She has a perch in the shower that I occasionally put her...

Hi guys, I'm just curious about something I noticed on my green cheek conure and wanted a few opinions. Some of the feathers around the upper part of her wings are looking a little ratty and not complete and some of them look like they have little bits of black around some of the edges. I...