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Duskypearls -> WTF?! (7/7/2012 7:41:20 PM)
No kidding! http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2010/2/5/129098978857164441.jpg

MasterG2kTR -> RE: WTF?! (7/7/2012 8:16:51 PM)
Actually that's a common problem for parrots. Many of them will pluck their own feathers until they end up looking like that....and I can't remember exactly why. Years ago I had a neighbor with a parrot that did the same thing and she explained why, but it escapes me now.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: WTF?! (7/7/2012 8:21:12 PM)
Also, there is a horrible disease that parrots rarely survive (psittacine beak & feather) that destroys the feathers. There's a 'too at the Broward humane society that survived, featherless mostly, but still total cockatoo. Very contagious, he is pretty much quarantined from other birds.

MercTech -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 9:42:07 AM)
Either feather fungus or the bird is totally neurotic. (LadyHibiscus had the technical term I think) I've seen both. Birds can be like some submissives, total attention hogs.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 9:51:19 AM)
I dont know that it's attention... I met a very loved isabella too that had to wear a bandage because she actually pierced her chest cavity! Neurosis, disease, boredom, diet...lots going on with a parrot. My grey came to me totally plucked out, and was fully feathered again after six months with me. He's still a heavy preener, though it doesn't seem to help much! He's kind of a scruffleupagus.

JstAnotherSub -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 9:52:32 AM)
I have known of both grays and cockatoos who pulled their feathers out due to boredom. They are very social creatures, and need a lot of interaction.

myotherself -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 10:01:40 AM)
I took in a rescue lovebird that was a plucker. He'd been neglected for the first 3 or 4 years of his life, then was taken in by a lady I know who had so many other 'rescue' animals that she didn't have time to work with this little guy. He was a very nervy bird and regularly pulled out feathers, and often managed to sever blood feathers. He ended up wearing a plastic collar around his neck to help him, but eventually I had to rehome him with someone who really knew what they were doing with this poor damaged little fella. I still miss him [:(]

LadyHibiscus -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 10:36:01 AM)
The blood feathers!! Eeh. My Jed is permanently pinioned, not sure if it was a bad wing clip, or an injury. The right side flight grow in wrong, so he MUST beak them off... and then flapflapflapflap. Poop-off really is brilliant for removing the spattered blood. Which sticks to surfaces like epoxy. [8\|] (Deeply wishing for a Bird Area Cleaner)

myotherself -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 10:39:58 AM)
Poor Woody bit off so many blood feathers in the beginning that I kept a pair of needle-nose pliers next to his cage to pluck them out when it happened. I had to decorate my living room before I sold it because the cream coloured wall behind the birdie cage had so many cleaned-off blood splatters on it that it looked like I'd murdered someone there! But I ended up rehoming him through a parrot rescue charity that had a volunteer who was a lovebird expert and who had had considerable success with little pluckers like Woody [:D]

LadyHibiscus -> RE: WTF?! (7/8/2012 10:45:40 AM)
When we repainted I demanded semiglass in my room! Lovebirds are cool, thoguh not often lovey with humans! I never dreamed what a companion a bird could be until I lived with them. We rehabbed a sparrow once but that was it. Yeah, my BIRD PHOBIC MOM, crashed on the couch, just back from the hospital from having her leg sewn up. Because she folded a storm window. Yes. In comes my grandmother from her walk. A faint cheepcheep is heard. Heartattack time for mom. Little naked sparrow. Spoilt creature! Stayed with us for a year.

myotherself -> RE: WTF?! (7/9/2012 1:22:35 PM)
My lovey was an antisocial little git. He absolutely adored his little budgie pal, but took great pleasure in dive-bombing the buns and snatching beak-fulls of fur out of their backsides. He'd sit about 3 feet away from me and scream at me. He was a quirky little paranoid baldy-bird, that's for sure! lol

LadyHibiscus -> RE: WTF?! (7/9/2012 1:28:33 PM)
Typical lovebird behaviour. They are so beautiful and so shitty when it comes to being pals with anyone but another lovebird. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED THAT.

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