kevindunn Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 hi everyone noodles my 3 yr old cag has been with me 8 months now. We have lost a few neck and chest feathers due to him coming to a new home but he has calmed down alot nw and the misting with aloe vera juice has helped alot. i have the room r/h around 65% feed him harrisons pellets with frest fruit,veg and select nuts eg walnut..almonds non salted. I have recently been waking up to feathers at the bottom of cage e.g flight feathers couple of tail feathers and he is constantly preening even with one or two misting a day ?I really cant tell if he is molting or plucking these feather out ? any help/advice would be grateful . thankyou (ps he has been vets and bloods and health is fine) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave007 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 hi everyonenoodles my 3 yr old cag has been with me 8 months now. We have lost a few neck and chest feathers due to him coming to a new home but he has calmed down alot nw and the misting with aloe vera juice has helped alot. i have the room r/h around 65% feed him harrisons pellets with frest fruit,veg and select nuts eg walnut..almonds non salted. I have recently been waking up to feathers at the bottom of cage e.g flight feathers couple of tail feathers and he is constantly preening even with one or two misting a day ?I really cant tell if he is molting or plucking these feather out ? any help/advice would be grateful . thankyou (ps he has been vets and bloods and health is fine) Flight feathers, tail feathers, covert features are different from the huge amount of feathers that are discarded once or twice a year. That's what's called *molting* Flight feathers, tail feathers, covert feathers have blood lines in them. Periodically, that blood dries up which makes those feathers start to dry out and die. Those feathers then fall out any time they start to die. It can happen at any time of the year and most of the time only a few will fall out when they die. Sometimes 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 yeathers will die and the bird helps the feathers to fall out by pulling at them. Then those feathers are replaced with new ones. This whole process is not molting. It happens when those feathers die and it happens all year long and there's no predicting when it'll happen. That's what's happening to your bird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevindunn Posted March 31, 2016 Author Share Posted March 31, 2016 thankyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlies Dad Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Thank you Dave! That was very informative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kins2321@yahoo.com Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Dave has always been the go to guy for feather plucking versus molt! We have been lucky that Sophie does neither. Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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