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In my defense I have to tell you that Huggie is a very spoiled bird. If she is left alone for one hour, she plucks herself – so when I went back to work 3 days a week, she became unsightly. Nothing is wrong with her, she just plucks her belly feathers, her leg feathers, a patch on her back. She looks much nicer than she did when I got her, when she had literally no tail feathers or wing feathers. It’s a very hard habit for any bird to break and she looks really good compared to then………ok so now I have defended her looks. Get a load of how she hates my new Poad! It is a very big video but not all that long – hope you laugh! Don’t have your speaker up TOO loud, because she squawks and that’s the reason a goffin does not make a good apartment community pet! lol 🙂
And if this doesn’t work as a video, I don’t know how to do it! Will upload to myspace tomorrow!!
Awwwwww…. You better watch out… when your not looking, she’s gonna try to take that Poad out! XD
XD Huggie doesn’t care for the competition? It tried to get a reaction out of the Poad didn’t it? Too cute.I agree,you better put the Poad out of sight and behind glass. 😆
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Aww she’s a plucker 🙁 have you tried red palm oil? I rescue birds and have had lots of pluckers and this stuff works miracles!LOL! She reminds me of my cat sees the vacuum cleaner
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry Dragonsenchantments wrote:LOL XD my amazon does that to stuffed animals, and windstone, and the camera and well about anything.
Aww she’s a plucker 🙁 have you tried red palm oil? I rescue birds and have had lots of pluckers and this stuff works miracles!Hi enchantments, hey THANK YOU so much for this suggestion, I am going to pick some up tomorrow and give it a try!! But really she mostly plucks when she is left alone and in four hours she can have her belly bare LOL It’s like a human biting their fingernails :/
LOL that is too funny! I had a Siameese cat once who did that when I brought home a stuffed Siameese cat. I hope she stops plucking her feathers. Shes such a beautiful bird, its sad to see her like that. I am not a bird person…what makes them do that? Depression? Boredom? Both? Something else?
WolfenMachine wrote:LOL that is too funny! I had a Siameese cat once who did that when I brought home a stuffed Siameese cat. I hope she stops plucking her feathers. Shes such a beautiful bird, its sad to see her like that. I am not a bird person…what makes them do that? Depression? Boredom? Both? Something else?
lol animals are so funny – at Halloween if we wear masks and walk into a room with the cats or birds, we have a JUNGLE of outrageous reactions!
Huggie basically plucks from boredom – doesn’t matter what all toys I give her tho a simple FEATHER from one of the other birds keeps her happy for over an hour sometimes! I think in her case, it was a habit she had like biting fingernails, that I have never been able to break her of. But she definately looks 75% better than she did when I got her – and has looked much better than this when I was home 24/7 for years. I’ve seen some macaws and afrigan greys totally bald and ‘naked’ that were awful pluckers…….but I did want to get some of that Red Palm Oil that enchantments suggested however, Petsmart didn’t have any :/ I will get it online! Oh, and my local pet shop that sold and groomed our birds went out of business, and I can’t recall the ‘bird bath spray’ I used from there but the crap they sell at Petsmart isn’t half as good :sigh:…..will check for some of that online, too!
Though it sounds like her plucking is behavior-related, have you had her vet checked for allergies or any underlying medical problem? Sounds silly but low level yeast or bacterial infections can sometimes last years inside of a parrots body.. not making them sick but causing problems such as plucking. Sometimes is is dietary… no, I’m not suggesting that you aren’t feeding her right! 😳 What I mean is that like people, sometimes a parrot can have variations in dietary needs, even between individuals in a species. This is not always very obvious but a vet’s full blood panel might show if there is anything awry.
If it’s behavior-related (and if she does it just when you leave…) then I sympathize. I’ve worked with birds my whole life and feather plucking is one of the saddest, hardest things to deal with because we hate to see them do it to themselves. Even the best cared for parrot in the world can pluck. They are so much more emotionally needy than people realize! Especially cockatoo species.
I have a parrot that has separation anxiety and chews her feathers off… so that the bases are still in place. She is perpetually scruffy looking.
Re: the parrot spray/bath- the best thing for birds is just plain ol’ water… several times a week (unless she has a medical condition with her skin and needs a special spray). I shower with my feather-chewing parrot and it helps to keep her from chewing them as much when they are always super clean. Like your cockatoo, she does not have an oil gland and produces dust via feather powder-downs, so keeping the dust down is an added bonus!! XD
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