would like some clarification

[DallyTsuka]

i was watching munch preening her wings, and i noticed she started twisting one of her flights around and actually wriggled it out of her wing.

she seems like she is molting, as all my other birds are molting right now, and she's got some loose feathers flying around her cage lol but she also has a history of plucking and mutilating. nothing too major. the mutilation was a one time thing where she chewed the skin off her leg, and the plucking was done when she was sitting on eggs.

what do you think? just coincidental that she pulled out a loose feather, or do you think she plucked it? she wriggled it out and pulled it, i watched her. but it was a steady movement, not a yank, no pain nothing, just a steady slow tug and twist and it was out and she was playing with it in her beak.

 

[henpecked]

She has a new feather growing , i think that's why she pulled the old one. The old one wasn't bothering her, but the one coming in was.

 

[DallyTsuka]

thank you

 

[SandyBee]

I agree, my amazon does that with a feather he wants out during molting and he's never plucked.

 

[weco]

My patty does the same thing.....I think they can feel a feather that is coming loose in the follicle, like we could do to teeth when we were children, and like us, wiggle a loose tooth & pull it out.....

 

[DallyTsuka]

My patty does the same thing.....I think they can feel a feather that is coming loose in the follicle, like we could do to teeth when we were children, and like us, wiggle a loose tooth & pull it out.....

when you put it that way, it does make sense. lol guess i was worrying over nothing. then again, if she plucks, as long as its not a health problem, i could care less if she chooses to be beautiful bald i was just a little baffled that she pulled the feather right out of her wing, it was one of her primaries lol i hadnt ever seen any of my birds pull out their feathers quite like that.

 

[MonicaMc]

You typically know when a bird plucks a feather because it hurts! And they should "jump" or perhaps make a noise when they pull a feather... at least, generally they do.

So I agree, probably a molted feather!