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WTF?! - 7/7/2012 7:41:20 PM   
Duskypearls


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RE: WTF?! - 7/7/2012 8:16:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: WTF?! - 7/7/2012 8:21:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 9:42:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 9:51:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.



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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 9:52:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 10:01:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		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

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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 10:36:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

(Deeply wishing for a Bird Area Cleaner)

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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 10:39:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		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

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RE: WTF?! - 7/8/2012 10:45:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		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.

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RE: WTF?! - 7/9/2012 1:22:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		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

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RE: WTF?! - 7/9/2012 1:28:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		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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