Parrot Feather Plucking | Causes & Solutions | TheParrotTeacher 

Plucking is so complex, but I'm really glad that we worked through it with Kip :)

Thanks David, thank goodness I have never had this issue with any of my birds, but I now feel more equipped to deal with it! 😊

Underrated channel. Man doesnt have any gimmicks and just tells you straight. I bet if you had a few target training videos and techniques in action, your views would increase

I've been struggling with healing a rescue cockatiel. I've done hours of research online (besides going to the vet, of course) and discovered that most of the problems are very often traced back to Vitamine A deficiency... People should know about this much more. Vit A is so important. You can prevent a lot of troubles if you get your tiels to eat carrots and pumpkins!

Thank you!

Thank u for clarification on the difference

For me personally with my little gcc Squirt, her out of the blue feather plucking was her SOS to me because her body was changing and she didn't know how to handle it, she was physically showing me there was something wrong with her.

Muy bien bro

My 1.5 year old Green Cheek got her wins clipped for the first time about 4 days ago and she’s now plucking as a result. How can I stop the plucking?

I’m about to get a green cheek conure in the next couple weeks. I’ve been waiting years doing research. It’s been a toss up of a hahns macaw and a green cheek. But I I found a person who hand raises baby green cheeks not to far from me.

Would you recommend those feather plucking collars?

Hi Pet Parrot Lovers, Our male Eclectus (Mambo) has been living with us for 20 years now (Australia). We hope this feedback "Comment" helps other pet parrot owners, as this is why and how we have had no difficulty with Mambo 🦜plucking his feathers: 1) Early in Mambo being our young, hand-raised, tame pet parrot family member we noticed that Mambo would intentionally bath itself when given its morning fresh clean drinking water 💦 (fresh water also given late afternoon before his tea), but he would choose to bathe himself only once weekly, and would also get our attention too! 2) We early read that the Eclectus parrots' original natural habitat is the Tropical Rain Forests of North Queensland and the Tropical Highland Rainforests of PNG (Papua New Guinea), & some of the tropical Pacific Islands. That’s when we thought that they would live with showers of rain 🌧 in their original tropical rainforest habitat, and we put this together with Eclectus’s also being a very high DANDER bird that Mambo would probably enjoy, at his chosen time to bath, with us also giving him a gentle shower spray with an indoor pot plants water 💦 spray bottle, set to the widest lightest water spray setting. Well yes indeed! Mambo LOVES his weekly bath 🛁 plus light water-spray shower all over and under his body -- he even spreads his wings wide so we can spray under both his wings and both sides of his chest. Mambo lets us know when he's had enough of the water spray by. heading to his roosting-nightly high sleeping perch. Mambo prefers this weekly wash in the morning, and he happily chats away after his bath and water spray. So pet parrot lovers, our take on why Eclectus parrots 🦜 (& some other parrots too!) have a reputation for being feather-pluckers is NOT necessarily a nervousness condition, nor consequent to a health issue or boredom either, but rather with their high dander skin-replacing body, the build-up of dander becomes irritating to them. Thus the scratching and pecking at their irritated skin (with feathers coming out while trying to relieve themselves of the dander skin irritation) is why parrots understandably scratch & peck their skin. I would be scratching my skin too if I didn't shower regularly, and I don't even have a high-dander skin!🤗 And yes, the stress-factor to the parrot with the DANDER irritation can understandably impact their general health and wellbeing, and happiness! This DANDER skin irritation probably adds to bad behaviour, like screeching, etcetera. We have 3 pet parrots, and they have never had the problem of plucking feathers. They all live indoors in our home with us to keep them safe from outside predators (snakes, rats, and predatory birds - e.g. Butcher Birds, Magpies). I have had pet birds most of my 70 year life - and approximately 100 racing pigeons as a young teenager and belonged in the latter 1960’s to the Brisbane QLD Racing Pigeon Federation (the best I got was a 3rd place 🥉 in a long distance pigeon race back to their loved home lofts -- birds love an easy resort-lifestyle and security). Enjoy wonderful pet birds, as they love human company too! Cheers, Garzo 🎶🦜 - see in the RU-vid Channel “ILLUSTRA MEDIA” documentary entitled “FLIGHT: The Genius of Birds” Trailer on RU-vid, and with a Google search, the complete documentary is available for purchase on DVD 📀, it’s an awesome documentary. Enjoy 😃

David what was the green mixture you were feeding in the cup?

i have a cockatiel baby bird it lives in a colony with 2 other baby cockatiels and two parents it is plucking its feathers and taking out blood. i can surely say that we give him a proper diet and there is no fear or stress please help

Avian tea? Is that what you said? Ty

How old are conures when they have their first moult?

Better make sure my future birds dont pluck with watching this vid right now.