molting

Meyer** sorry. Hello All, Mr. Charlie pants, my 6-yr old Meyer is molting like CRAZY and is not handling it well. He is normally very sweet, especially with me and my immediate family, but over the past week or two he has been hissing and growling more. Charlie growls at himself in the...

This is Cleo and her tail suddenly looks like this. I notice she has been losing lots of feathers lately and a few tail feathers, so I assume she is molting. But I've never seen so much tail feather loss in one time. She has little nubby feathers coming in but I just want to see if this is...

Hi, I'm new to the forum, and I have an important question. My parrot, named Bird is a blue fronted Amazon. He/she is 9 years old and I've been the only owner. Bird is molting for the third time in as many months. I've not seen this before. Birds tail feathers are looking kind of ratty as...

so as i mentioned ive now brought lola in to work, thought it would be nice for her rather than stuck in the cage all day at home alone. ive noticed today though at the bottom of her tree there are about 6 feathers. i know its not unusual for the odd one to fall out when preening a bit too...

We're making a lot of progress, and Jelly doesn't seem to be plucking, or if she was, it has mostly subsided... but she is losing/growing feathers, so I think we're definitely dealing with molting now. Anyway, a couple weeks ago I started giving her a powder/supplement called Featheriffic...

Two weeks ago I lost my almost 25 year old cockatiel. A couple days later I noticed a "rough" patch on my son's gcc's belly that looked as if she might have pulled a feather or 2. She will be a year old in about a month, and we've kept an eye on her, but the patch has gotten a little bigger...

Hi there, I am looking for some help and I will be as descriptive as possible. I have been reading a lot of forum pages to see if other people have had my problem, but so far I cannot find an example that relates closely enough. I brought Aria (DNA sexed female) home in September. She is 8...

Hi! My 5 month old Black-cap conure is going through his first molt and I think it is a hard one.... His whole body is losing feathers at once ....it's been going on for a couple of weeks now but one thing I have noticed is he seems really, really tired for a bird.... I have had him to the vet...

Pocky has this weird thing going on. He's currently molting so a lot of his feathers are just falling off. However, when a medium sized feather (such as a wing feather) or a long feather (tail feather) falls off he picks it up and holds it like a sword.:p its actually kind of cute. He'll chase...

So i was trimming my baby's wings yesterday (i do clip myself and i was just trimming, he was clipped when i bought him at 10 wks and i've done a full "haircut" once at about 12 weeks - i live in a VERY small nyc apartment and feel more comfortable keeping him clipped especially since he loves...

I couldn't find anything about it online and I'm not even sure birds do that, but that is what her behavior seems like. For the past few weeks instead of hopping onto my hand when I go to her cage, she will shy away from my hand at first, then come up to it and rub her head, bite my hand (very...

Hi All, I am new to your forum and would love if you could help me out. My senegal Mango shook this morning and tiny feathers came off of him in multitude. I see he has a bare spot on his neck. He has never molted this much and especially all at once. Could there be something wrong with him?

Recently I've been finding a lot of white feathers and green feathers (the entire feather--no blood) at the bottom of Morgan's cage. The other day when he flew to his cage one of his tail feathers fell out as well. I'm really worried that he might have started to pluck (I've been working a lot...

Hi everyone. It's been some weeks since I've been away from the forums. I had technical challenges (computer issues) and using my phone for most things got old really fast. I really missed reading your stories, ideas, new going-ons with your fids and the photos of the beauties and adorable...

I have some questions about molting and pin (blood) feathers. Ive never really known much about them but that you shouldnt break them. So when do birds molt? How can you tell when they are molting and that they arent sick? What should you do when they molt? And about blood feathers, how do you...

My Hahn's Macaw, Kiki, just turned 2 in June and this Fall she is having a TERRIBLE molt she is just miserable....she will hardly eat only playing a little, she lets me help her a little but she is just miserable. Does anyone have any natural suggestions to help ease her itchiness?

Hi, I just joined this site tonight, and I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I'm having with my parakeet. His name is Buddy. He's the first pet bird I've ever had. I got him from a bird farm when he was about 2 1/2 months old. He's now about 4 months old. He was pretty easy...

Hi guys, I'm just wondering how often you need to clip your alex's? Vino was clipped right before I got her at the beginning of august and she still has the clipped primaries. I'm expecting her to start molting any day now so i'm guessing she'll molt them out then and then need to be...

I was just surfing and came across this short but great explanation Pin Feather and the molt process. I often see many questions about this so I'll just pass this along. Enjoy! BTW, whether you like Birdtricks.com or not, it's still a good read. What Is A Pin Feather?

This is my first bird so I don't know much about molting... She is a green cheek conure and in random places where she chould have vibrant color, you can see little gray feathers. It's all over, her back and head mostly. I see one little pin feather. I have found maybe 6 feathers in the past...

Well I don't really know how to start this but I am 15 and I got a green cheek conure about 3 months ago from Petco and everything has been great since we got him I have even potty trained him and tought him a few tricks. but he has started his first molt and everytime I try to scratch is...

Hi, I'm considering a 6 year old male Eclectus at a pet store. He has a beautiful green head, a band of gray fuzzy down around his neck, and the rest of his feathers are all nice, wings and tails. He looks a little scruffy on his chest, but it's just mixed colored feathers, not down. The band...