Mollysmum

I wish I could so she could preen but the vet put it on her while she was asleep and she didn't tell me how to get it off. Its not a normal collar is a round one like a globe

Molly looks like she has a bit of feather stuck in one of her nares . I s there anything i can do to help her. She currently has a collar on due to her plucking her feathers and she claws have just been clipped. SHe is eating ok and is stood at the moment with her foot up on the back of my couch Many thanks Wendy and Molly

Just thought I would give you a quick update. Molly seems to be ok with the collar on but she hasn't quite got her balance right yet with the extra weight around her neck. She has worked out she can still pluck some of her feathers near and on her tail but she has only done that once or twice.

I'm going Female.

Its the first full day of her wearing the collar and she hasn't attacked it yet. I have given her an pure aloe vera bath as well today and will contiue to give her a dail bath to help her skin. She is sat att he moment chewinga kitchen roll tube on my sofa. She has come so far in the last week or so with her training as she wasn't stepping up before and now she is even with my husband who isn't her favorite person. I will continue to up date her progress as we go along this journey together . The vet even remarked that she was so young to start this behaviour. We are also giving her palm nuts as well to help with her feathers. I will try everything you have suggested to me and ask the vet those questions next time we go on the 28th Feb Many thanks again Wendy & Molly

I do think personally because of the wing clipping its why she is plucking. She so desperately wants to fly but she can't because of her wings being clipped short so she is plucking. I will ask the vet when we go back next month to see her about what you have said. Many Thanks for your advice

this is where she has been plucking the wing was already like that before we got her. this is her today after the collar has been put on her Thanks i will do a search on plucking

She is plucking her neck , under her wings and on top and her back . She has destroyed all of her tail and has no tail feathers left The Vet says she will be put to sleep and they will pull out some of the damaged feathers so her new ones can come through. She didn't say which part of her body she would do first. She hasn't tried to chew the collar because its a round one its not stick out at all but she has been very sleepy today as they had to give her an anaestheic to fit the collar.

Molly has been to the see our local avian Vet for the second time today as she has been really chewing her feathers off. The first time the vet gave me some Haloperidol to give to her. Having since read up on the drug I really don't want to drug her as i feel it should be used as a last resort so when we went back today the vet suggested a collar to try and stop her from plucking her feathers out and then in four weeks time if she has stopped then she is going to have an operation to take out the rest of the feathers that she has chewed off so her new ones can grow back. We think we know the cause of the feather chewing as the breeder has given her a wing clip when she was very young ( She is only 9 moonths old now) and she can't fly as she has never been fleged. The collar she has on her is a round one as a normal collar was too big for her. Is it still ok to give her a bath ie spray her? I have been sprayiing her with part water part aloe vera juice every other day. Any advice on the bathing or on the feathe chewing would be much appriecated Many Thanks

Molly calls herself Molly Moo !!!

I will take some and post them when I get home from work.

Could she have been bred from a congo and a timneh? Her other tail feathers are a very muted red colour almost grey. Thanks

We have been told the Molly is a timneh grey and over the last few weeks there have been new feathers coming through and the new tail feathers are red! Could she be a congo or can timnehs get red tail feathers? Many thanks in advance

Henry Tudor Henry the eighth of England Whats the Latin name for the African Grey?

Molly has in the last week or so wanted a head scratch and has let me touch her back . She decided last night that she wanted my wedding ring and tried to get that from me!

We got Molly three weeks ago and she is 6 months old. She was talking the day after we brought her home saying Molly and she now says hello as well. She is trying to say other things but its just coming out at sound at the moment. She whistles all the time and she makes gulping noises , a clicking tongue and a really strange noise we can't work out what it is.

I have spoken to the breeder and he is sending her hatch certificate tomorrow and he confirmed that she is 6 months old . It doesn't matter to us how old she is we have fallen in love with her but its nice to know for her Hatchday!:laugh:

No we didn't get one I'm going to ring him tomorrow to find out if she has one. She is only small so i know she isn't fully grown yet Thanks

She has lighter rims around her eyes they are not all black

Quick question how old do you think she is ? the breeder told me four months but i am having doubts about her age She is starting to fall asleep ont he top of the cage!

Aww thanks she is beak grinding and standing on one claw at the moment.

I have put some pictures in the Baby room

She can't step up yet and she won't let us touch her she is still a bit wary of us. Any link would be helpful. Thanks Wendy

Here are a few pictures of my baby Molly <br><br>Post edited by: Mollysmum, at: 2008/11/18 23:39

She did go back in eventually we bribed her in. Molly isn't flighted and my poor baby had her wings clipped when we got her so she hasn't fleged yet altough she keeps trying to fly. She was in her cage tonight with the door open and she has only just coe out in the last twenty minutes:lol: :lol: