plucked rose breasted cockatoo question

[Featheredsamurai]

"and how he looked at me with those big eyes like he was asking me to come home to my house. Ugh, what have I gotten myself into??"

I've spent much of my life looking into those eyes. Rescued animals seem to know that you're there to help them. I've seen animals of all kinds turn their lives around from many situations. And it always starts with that look.

Rosie gives me those eyes everyday And so does my rescued dog. Helping a animal be able to enjoy life and transform their existence is a AMAZING thing.

 

[Oedipussrex]

Ugh, that's depressing. I thought that I could bathe him and then help him preen out the long spaghetti looking sheaths on his back. I thought maybe they would fluff out then. So if I am understanding correctly they are just sheaths without the feather inside? Do I try and crack the sheaths or just leave them? I really have not seen anything like them. I guess the vet will tell me how to deal with this. When I get him I will post pictures of him, I keep thinking about him and how he looked at me with those big eyes like he was asking me to come home to my house. Ugh, what have I gotten myself into??

definetly get all the tests and ask the vet
but there should still be something inside those sheaths. Most likely feathers that are just a little deformed because they were never preened. and even if you have to let this lot go, preening and helping him properly n the next moilt might fix it.

Since the breeder knows the cause for the plucking the little guy might be completely fine otherwise, but your description does sound sadly familiar to me. :/

PBFD makes the sheathes stunted and twisted as well, (depending on how serious it has become) it starts out with curly feathers, or feathers that look too short for the feather they are supposed to be, sometimes the sheaths look way too thick compared to the norm, and later they have weird puss instead of blood coming out of the ends of the sheaths of blood feathers if they are snapped, eventually the feathers never completely grow out of the sheaths before the bird just removes them or they fall out, and really bad ones dont form feathers at all anymore, they just stay as stunted sheaths full of bloody puss or goop that is whatever colour the feather was going to be.

 

[Jtbirds]

I have to say it is not PBFD I know what they are describing and it is from the fact he has a collar on for mutation and can't preen his incoming feathers, PBFD rarely if ever effects cockatoos and throughout the galah first molt it would have lost every feather or patches of feather and not have regrown any so the fact that she is regrowing feathers makes that option a no, you should still do the test and that would defiantly be wise.

 

[brianlinkles]

I have to say it is not PBFD I know what they are describing and it is from the fact he has a collar on for mutation and can't preen his incoming feathers, PBFD rarely if ever effects cockatoos and throughout the galah first molt it would have lost every feather or patches of feather and not have regrown any so the fact that she is regrowing feathers makes that option a no, you should still do the test and that would defiantly be wise.

That makes me feel better! I'm going to get all the tests however the only viable option I see is to put his cage far away from my other birds, I really don't have anyone that I could put his cage at. I am wondering if the vet could board him till the results come in. However, I really don't want to put him through any additional stress. I am hoping that just getting him here in a room to himself until the tests come back will be ok. I am very nervous as to what will I do if he does come back positive for something that is dangerous to my other birds. Then what?

 

[SandyBee]

Do you trust this breeder enough to possibly leave him there while waiting for the test results?

 

[Jtbirds]

Unless you have separate air filtration and so on a 100% quraenteene is not really viable, there was just a thread about this and it gave sme very great insight that I didn't even think to post about you can thank greenwing for it. I'd say try and get him as secluded as possible or board him I'd opt for the boarding as I don't care if someone offered me a black palm cockatoo I would still value my existing birds more then the one coming home, flock protection before the other birds, sorry that's how it is..

 

[Pinkbirdy]

What ever happened to this bird ?

 

[Tonkatiel]

I'm also interested to know what happened??

Kind of unrelated but just saw this...

PBFD rarely if ever effects cockatoos

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=p...AQ&biw=360&bih=568&sei=Y7WiUduJEon1iQfZ1ICAAQ
This is a link to Google Images where I searched 'pbfd'. There are plenty of cockatoos with it. PBFD is very common in wild cockatoos here in Australia, and when researching it, every site lists cockatoos as one of the main species susceptible to this disease...

 

[brianlinkles]

What ever happened to this bird ?

The outcome of this situation has been very upsetting and sad. I kept him away from my other birds, I bought him lots of great toys and then brought him into my avian vet. Unfortunately his tests came back positive for borna virus. This made it impossible for him to stay with me. I wanted so much for him to be part of our flock and to be able to spend time with my other birds. I was scared that he would pose a health risk to them. I have been able to find him another home where they are used to working with this disease and are able to take the precautions necessary to work around this. Not to mention the fact that they have other birds with this disease. This disease is not a death sentence and affects 10% of all birds however in this case this poor little guy has every side affect that is talked about. I feel so sorry for him and cannot believe how much this disease has already affected him.

 

[Pinkbirdy]

Im so glad you responded Im sorry hes so sick .But at least you were able to help him ,you should feel good about that . Im going to look that bird illness up now ive never heard of it .

 

[Kiran]

The sheath issue is true, we took in about six months ago a cockatoo without a upper mandible and her feathers where she can't get well with her feet(under her wings) are like this as well, it is a matter of them losing them and then you being the great owner and helping them or at least in this case I will have to preen this girl everyday of her life once she loses these horrible unsheathed feathers she has!

Could you please tell me how & what do you feed that cockatoo, for my knowledge if ever such a situation arises in future? Thank you kindly.