molting

Hi everybody my GCC OrvilleThePeck is 5 months old and noticed feathers missing from his chest. He's eats Rowdy bush, veggies, fruit and nutiriberries and spends 90% of the day with me. He's a sweet loving boy, lots of toys and a play stand. He doesn't seem stressed and if I feel his chest I can...

Hello 👋🏻 I have a 5 year old Sun Conure. She has only been with me for 2 months now. She is preening a decent amount lately and Im looking for some reassurance. She has lost a wing feather, multiple down feathers and also feathers on her chest. She doesn't have any bald spots and is taking baths...

I was helping my 8 month old CAG with her pin feathers and i noticed some feathers that are almost out, but they look weird. Is it normal for them to look like this? they only look like this on her lower neck and back, right below her beak - the feathers look healthy and fine.

my 8 month old CAG is going through her first molt and she's having a lot of feathers falling out. I collect them and put them in a little album i have, for memories. Yesterday i found these two at the bottom of her cage. They kind of look chewed off, compared to the others. Did she pluck them?

Does this look like molting or plucking??

Hi, I've had my GCC for nearly two years. She's been molting for a few weeks and she's had pin feathers around her head/neck and has grown in a few new wing and tail feathers. That's all been ok but I'm concerned about her back. She does have a handful of noticeable new feathers starting to grow...

I did a deep clean of my cockatiels cage yesterday ,but today I've noticed a lot of his feathers on the bottom of his cage? He is 5 years old has been molting for the past 2-3 months so far , but this is a lot more then usual. Is this something to be concerned about?

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing great. :) I have a question regarding my cockatiel - maybe some of you have had a similar experience and would be willing to share it with me? My cockatiel, Fili (male, 1.5 years old) has been puffed up and sleeping quite a lot for the past three to...

Hi all! My two year cockatiel, Zazoe, lost all of his tail feathers at once yesterday. Although this is his third molt, I have never seen him lose this many feathers (6 tail feathers) at once. When he lost them, he didn’t show any signs of being hurt and he wasn’t stuck. He just flew away and...

My bird has been losing lots of feathers lately. I was just scratching his head and 2 came out. Almost every time he preens himself a new feather falls. I'm not sure if he's picking out his feathers or not, and it makes me worried.

Hey all! Rocky is just shy of six months old and has already been molting for a couple of weeks now. Tonight she was sitting with me, and when I got up to put her to bed I noticed this tail feather sitting on the ground at my feet. Rocky is particularly clumsy when it comes to climbing and has...

Has anyone else’s tiels gone through a partial molt as a juvenile? According to the breeder, Rocky should only be about 15-16 weeks now, but we’re definitely doing a small molt. So far he’s lost quite a few downy and contour feathers, as well as about 4 or 5 from his crest. As for new feathers...

Hello Everyone! I just wanted to know if anyone has had any experience with parrot sprays for bathing and prevention of feather plucking? My african grey has a hard time dealing with molts and tends to chew at his feathers, I read somewhere that there are sprays that can help with that but I do...

Hello everybody Everything was very normal, Kiwi started to preen very normally and I wasn't really worried so I left the room for a couple minutes and when I came back I found a feather. I started to panic, because I thought he was plucking and I worried about what I was doing to stress him...

I am "boarding" GCC Kona for a few months while her owner is abroad. She has been losing feathers since (and before) she arrived with me, even though it's not time for her usual molt according to her owner. She was with someone else for ~3 weeks before coming to me, and that person really...

Hey there! I've had my cockatiel lady (Navi) for a good four months now (she's about a few months older than that) , and have been enjoying my time with her as much as i can! I am home almost all the time right now, due to COVID and whatnot, and am spending a lot of time with her throughout the...

Hi there! My four-month-old green cheek is beginning to molt some of her baby feathers due to her transition to adolescence and the change in the weather here in Ontario. She's been to the vet for a checkup and has been determined to be very healthy, but she tends to chew a bit at her...

Hi all, new budgie owner here. I got my 2 budgies about 2 months ago, I believe it's one boy (Gatorade) and a girl (Blueberry). They bonded very quickly when we brought them home, cuddling, preening each other and regurgitating. However recently Blueberry underwent her first molt and started...

Hi I’ve had my conure for a few months now, and he has recently started what I thought to be molting. He has a few pin feathers on his head and around his tail feathers, but his chest is incredibly patchy and I feel as though he is plucking it. I would love Dome advice on this

Hi! I'm kind of concerned with my lovebird, but im not sure if this is just the normal molting process? Below is the best picture I have of his neck but when he stretches out its actually all around his neck and seems to be spreading upwards to his head. A few days ago he managed to escape...

I was super excited because over the past month or so Māui has grown a pair of new flight feathers. But this morning, he just dropped one of the newly grown in feathers. I’m super confused. Is it normal to grow a brand new feather then after a month have it drop out? The feather isn’t damaged...

Māui (finally) came home yesterday and had his first vet check today. The vet commented on his show clip; this was done by the breeder, he only has 2 flights either side and they're kinda ratty because he doesn't really take care of them since they don’t help him fluttering down from a height...

According to the information the breeder told me when I got my cockatiel, he should now be 4 months old but it appears he has just today started his first molt. Google says they don't have them til 6-12 months so just wondered if anyone elses has molted early or if the breeder wasn't being 100%...

I’m sure that I’m just not searching under the right terms but I can’t seem to get a clear idea of the whole molting process anywhere! I am a complete newbie when it comes to being a bird mom and am trying to educate myself as best as possible. I recently adopted a Green Cheek Conure that is...

My boyfriend and I take care of this little parakeet. At first, he was a little skittish but then warmed up to me and let me give him scratches. He then started to grow a bunch of pin feathers around his neck and head and wings. He didn't want to be touched for awhile, and I thought this was...

My green cheek conure, Butter, has recently started to molt. I had a big scare for awhile that he was plucking but fortunately that ended up not being the case (as he was just molting and began to grow new in feathers). But today I’ve been scared because a lot of the new feathers on his belly...

Recently I’ve noticed some feathers missing on my quakers left leg. The rest of his body appears to be fine but as the days have been passing more and more feathers have dissapeares off of his leg. I fear that he may be plucking, altough he hasn’t been acting out of the norm, so I’m also...

Hello everyone! I was cleaning today when I found this feather in the balcony. Max spends quite some time sitting out in the sun everyday. Our balcony is meshed. My question is, how do you differentiate between molting and plucking? Do the feathers look different when molting vs when plucked...

I've had my 3 y/o Peach-faced Lovebirds since they were weaned. We live in central Texas where the humidity is high most of the year and it only cools down between Oct-Feb, usually. They live indoors next to, but not in front of, a window. They also have an outdoor aviary they spend time in on...

We have had our GCC for almost 3 years now. Bought him young (at an appropriate age) from a good breeder. My question is... He has had black tipped feathers on his wings (small green feather above blue flight feathers) ever since we got him! Initially I thought they were just weathered...

Sunny is molting. It's been going on for a few weeks now. At first I was concerned she was plucking, but I've been collecting all of her feathers and they each have an opposite partner. She has pin feathers everywhere and a few blood feathers on her face. She loves hanging out on my arm and...

My BCC is currently undergoing a somewhat minor molt; fair amount of pin feathers around the neck and on his head and face. For the most part it appears normal to me, however on the top of his head there is a large featherless spot, and while pin feathers are growing in place, the skin...

Hey, my Conure Kiwi looks like he's feather plucking, but I didn't know if he was feather plucking or not. I went online and did research, it seems like he's just molting and he sometimes will pull some feathers out by accident or that's just part of his preening activities. Anyways, I decided I...

I moved back to AZ from KY at the end of last year. Over the past several months (since at least June), I noticed that my conure Nibbler has had mainly down feathers showing on her chest (she started losing those feathers shortly after the move but figured it to be partially stress related from...

hello All - Sorry to annoy you again with more questions. Some of you may recall an earlier post of mine about a week ago re: possible molting of my 5-6month old ekkie hen. Most of you put me at ease, and as one poster suggested, her Blue Eye ring in in fact coming in now so I'm much less...

Hi, I know I should go and make an intro post, but I wanted to get some opinions on this. I have two cockatiels. Chester is six and my newest, Ellie, is around 6 months old. I believe they were born in late March (I am unsure of their gender). I've had cockatiels for many years, but after...

Hey All, Just noticed over the last few days that Monty seems to be molting a bit harder, and he's been pretty crabby, and is sleeping more than normal. Appetite (of course) is still good. His poor noggin' is full of sheathed feathers, and he's finally started dropping his trimmed flight...

Alexandrine Young Parrot losing feathers Hi, I have 2 beautiful Alexandrines. The youngest, who is about 4 and a half months now is going through her first moult (we think) She is looking like she is missing many feathers around her head and neck and is sensitive to touch. I can see new...

Hi Forum, Im sure this question has been asked a million times but I would love your feedback as I am a fairly new macaw owner. Recently, I found a patch of empty (bald spot?) on my Illiger's Macaw that I had never seen before. Goozoo is 8 years old and was adopted roughly 4 months ago. He's...

My 5-6 months old Sun Conure, has started losing those fluff feathers. Especially on her chest. She's not plucking and didn't seem to be over grooming the area. It's mostly the tiny feathers that are color tipped but have all that fluff at the base, and some just white fluff. The pin/barb at...