About this Forum

[saxguy64]

Plucking, feather destruction, or worse yet, self mutilation. So many of us have had, or currently have birds with one or more of these issues. It's sad, frustrating, disheartening... Okay, sometimes it's downright heartbreaking for us as parronts as we search for answers.

My time with a half naked little boy, my best friend ever, left me with a soft spot in my heart for the plucked, barbered, and self mutilated, "less than perfect" parrots. While those who don't understand see those imperfections above everything else, and bypass an otherwise wonderful companion, I see a beautiful, maybe tortured little soul, deserving of unconditional love. Honestly, I don't even see those "imperfections" any more. I see the love in their eyes. I see the love in their hearts. They are special in their own way.

Eventually, many of us just accept that the behavior isn't going to change, for whatever reason, but still, we have those questions. The need to understand why. Since these things are so much more common than many like to admit, we thought it was about time to dedicate a separate forum to the subject.

This is a place for information, thoughts, and ideas about plucking, feather destruction, or self mutilation. It's also a place to share experiences with our feathered friends who exhibit any of those behaviors. Welcome to the world of the perfectly imperfect.

 

[BirdyBee]

Thank you to the mod team for making this sub-forum! This will be super useful to owners who have issues with pluckers, barberers etc

 

[Terry57]

Thank you to the mod team for making this sub-forum! This will be super useful to owners who have issues with pluckers, barberers etc

You're very welcome! We are so grateful that Admin granted the request and added the new forum

 

[wrench13]

THanks for the effort Terry, this is a topic that a lot of parronts deal with. I wish that there was some basic research on the why of it, so help could be something concrete.

 

[Terry57]

THanks for the effort Terry, this is a topic that a lot of parronts deal with. I wish that there was some basic research on the why of it, so help could be something concrete.

Sadly, there seems to be many causes, many of which have no answers at all.

All of the Mods and Admins made this forum a reality, and we hope it will help many birds and their parronts.

 

[Ria.345]

Love the incorporation of this topic! It’s really sad to hear about pluckers and self mutilators but it needs to be talked about, and this forum can be of great use and one can get easily accessible threads all about this subject!

 

[Flboy]

You're very welcome! We are so grateful that Admin granted the request and added the new forum

 

[SailBoat]

Thank you for creating this very specific Topic Forum!!

I had very good luck with older Amazon over the years that by changing their life, i.e. providing them a loving caring home and extensive medical care they had stopped plucking. Then Julio came into our life and as a result of three-surgeries to repair his rump. He developed plucking as a result of the scabbing of the surgery sites. The rest is history and today he is a tailless DYH Amazon, because he plucks any and all new rump feathers.

It is a journey that now has a home to be able to tell.

Again, Thank you!!

 

[kme3388]

Thank you for starting this. It will be nice to have somewhere to specifically go to read on this very subject. I find myself going through so many threads looking for specific things so I can learn more, or see what has helped others. Parrot diseases is another one I am constantly searching on as Nico has boronavirus. It's such a confusing thing to understand for a variety of reasons. Again thank you so much for starting this thread