Cockatoo Feather Plucking

Theres little to rival the helplessness and anxiety that parrot owners feel when they see their beloved companion birds pulling out feathers, as if it were a terrible compulsion. Many times a bird that has been given the best of care can start removing its feathers, all of a sudden. Feather mutilation comes in several different patterns. Some birds bite their feathers off at skin level, leaving nothing but broken feather shafts and down feathers. Others actually pull feathers out intact until theyre...

I have two birds one is a reformed plucker and the other has just started. I'd like to share what worked and to ask some advice on what to do about my other bird. I have an 11 year old female Umbrella Cockatoo (Bean) and a male Blue & Gold Macaw (Duncan). Bean, the reformed Plucker - What Worked Unknown to us Bean pair bonded with my daughter and then Bean and her owner moved away with the bird. The bird began biting her feathers. She'd bite the ends off and work her way down the shaft. When...

Feather picking is a condition that has no easy and quick solutions, as it is a disease caused by stress and other psychological factors. The first thing you can do is purchase a collar or certain acrylics that you can adjust to fit the birds neck. Thus you can prevent the birds beak from reaching its feathers. So , by using the special collars, you manage to stop the bird from touching any of the feathers and mutilate itself, but what is there to be done to treat the causes that made the bird take on...

African Grey Parrots live across the whole range of the oil palm, from the ivory coast eastward past Cameroon and south into zaire. Polly's Palm Oil, which comes directly from West Africa, s the food of all the African Grey's ancestors and cousins in the wild! They are all well-adapted to it, and now you're going to have this food of their soul for your own parrot! What's going to happen when you your bird eats Palm Oil?? After a week or two, you'll probably notice your bird's tail feathers...

hi everyone, i ave my cockatoo for a week now he does like me anymore he is always running away from me and he likes ma sister's and my mom he doesnt like any male person...and i want to know that he scearm to much and wen ever i go near him he hangs on the cage and flaps his wings i do wat he is trying to say to me does anyone no wat could be this behaviour...

Hello, I am looking for help with my African Grey. A few days ago I notice she was missing some feathers on her neck. It is a small area but it seems to have gotten a little bigger since I first noticed it. She is acting normal, talking away and eating fine. I have read it could be because of an all seed diet, I give her a mix of pellets, fruits, and seeds but I she will rarely eat anything besides the seeds. Also, she has been eating the same basic diet for years now so I would find it odd that it would...