frostbug
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Post by frostbug on Aug 26, 2017 1:09:51 GMT -7
Do african greys molt my girl is/was a plucker. In last few days have noticed a lot of feathers around bottom of her cage and my heart just sank we had come so far nothing has changed so not sure y she would start again but some of them were bigger feathers which she has never been known to pull... help any info would be greatly appreciated have looked online but always get conflicting info thanks
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Post by Jane on Aug 26, 2017 2:30:53 GMT -7
Yes they do molt. The shafts of molted feathers will look clean. You may also be able to see or feel the new feathers coming in, they will look like needles and are called pin feathers.
Jane
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frostbug
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Post by frostbug on Aug 26, 2017 2:52:29 GMT -7
Most of the feathers I have checked seemed clean but a few of them the ends were flat do they loose many feathers in a molt sorry for all the questions I just wanna give her the best life she had such a rough start
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Post by Jane on Aug 26, 2017 3:17:37 GMT -7
They can lose quite a lot of the smaller feathers when molting but the molt is seamless - they never lose so many of the flight feathers at any one time that they can't fly.
Jane
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Post by beakertrout on Aug 26, 2017 8:33:03 GMT -7
Beaker drops feathers and fluffies all over the place.
All my dust bunnies look like featherd mice.
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frostbug
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Post by frostbug on Aug 26, 2017 12:30:19 GMT -7
Sounds exactly like what she's doing heaps of little ones and 1 or 2 bigger ones hopefully just a molt I noticed yesterday that she lost a few just when she was thinking of flying to me ( beating wings and calling for me to come get her) she can fly but dosent very oftern. Thanks for your help.
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mplo
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Post by mplo on Sept 26, 2017 18:06:49 GMT -7
Do african greys molt my girl is/was a plucker. In last few days have noticed a lot of feathers around bottom of her cage and my heart just sank we had come so far nothing has changed so not sure y she would start again but some of them were bigger feathers which she has never been known to pull... help any info would be greatly appreciated have looked online but always get conflicting info thanks Frankly, I think that the female African Greys do tend to get into feather-plucking more than the male African Greys do. Mine only does it when she's going through a molting stage, which she's going through right now. I can tell, because even her clipped flight feathers come out, as well. One of the things that I've done, which helps minimize Aziza's feather plucking is to give her the following supplements: A) A very small amount of flaxseed oil by mouth each day. B) Avi-Calm, a white powder that I put one scoop of into her drinking water every day, when I change it. C) A tannish powder called "Featheriffic", and another white powder, called AviCal Plus, both of which I put into Aziza's dry food (i. e., consisting of Roudybush Medium regular maintenance pellets and Boca-Nuts (a combo of nuts and dried fruits), which I change every 2-3 days. This, I believe, has helped cut down on the feather-plucking considerable. I've long since come to terms with the fact that, at least twice a year, Aziza goes through a stage where she doesn't look her best. She's a beautiful bird, nonetheless. She's sweet, and I love her. |
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Post by mplo on Sept 26, 2017 18:08:43 GMT -7
Yes they do molt. The shafts of molted feathers will look clean. You may also be able to see or feel the new feathers coming in, they will look like needles and are called pin feathers. Jane Also, the bigger feathers will come in the form of the rather large blood feathers. Be careful, because if blood feathers break, the bird can bleed to death rather quickly, because they have a very small blood volume, under all their plumage. Hope I've been of some help here. |
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Post by frostbug on Oct 1, 2017 21:01:10 GMT -7
I now have a fully feathered rj she is beautiful will post a pic when I get a chance think all she needed was some stability next step try stop her from her little love bites lol.
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Post by Jane on Oct 4, 2017 2:15:19 GMT -7
Glad to hear RJ is fully feathered.
Jane
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