Shedding

[Chikoo]

Do your birds leave white fluff everywhere?? My female doesn't, but there is just white fluff everywhere from my male. He seems to shed a lot! The screen behind where he perches in my room is just covered with white fluff but it is also all over the floors and such. I see it everywhere that he spends time. Never experienced this with my female though.

 

[coltfire]

its just a molt of the down feathers,it does get messy i hate having to get those feathers of the bars so many, but your female will do the same.

 

[Chikoo]

Hmm, I've had her for a year and never seen all the white fluff. But she does molt her feathers year-round. The male ALWAYS seems to be producing white fluff! I just vacuumed everything a week ago and its all fluffed again.

 

[weco]

While I've never seen numbers on parrots, the ruby throated hummingbird has about 940 feathers on its body and there are about 25,000 on a whistling swan, so, you'll be doing some more vacuuming.....

 

[mtdoramike]

You get away with vacuuming once a week, I do it every day.

 

[Wdlodge]

You get away with vacuuming once a week, I do it every day.

Hahaha! Tell me about it.

 

[drlisaort]

I definitely see those little fluff balls! I clean around and in Oliver's cage two times a day making it a snap, no more than ten minutes per time. But, when I go away and leave it to my husband that's another story!

 

[lpolliard]

Cleaning Tip:

I spray PAM on the bottom grating. It makes scrubbing much easier, helps prevent rusting, and it catches those floofies and dust.

 

[coltfire]

Hmm, I've had her for a year and never seen all the white fluff. But she does molt her feathers year-round. The male ALWAYS seems to be producing white fluff! I just vacuumed everything a week ago and its all fluffed again.

and you only have chikoo to clean them up after, try 7 all shedding those white feathers, the bird room gets covered in them im sure i could make a pillow out of all the white down feathers i get on a yearly bases, and they really stick to the cages, those ones i hate having to remove,lol

 

[nicki]

Vacuuming and MOPPING every day. Ugh. Then before the mopping getting on the floor with a scrub brush on my hands and knees cleaning food off of walls, floors, cage. I feel like Cinderella.

 

[mtdoramike]

Vacuuming and MOPPING every day. Ugh. Then before the mopping getting on the floor with a scrub brush on my hands and knees cleaning food off of walls, floors, cage. I feel like Cinderella.

hahahahahahahaha, tell me about it, I feel like Cinderfella. But at least I don't any bugs or rodents running around and since you can't bug spray around the birds, I would whole lot rather spend the time cleaning.

 

[kc_y0]

Oh gosh those little feathers get into everything lol!!! I turn around for one second then look back and there's one floating into my drink -___-