What if the parrot pecks at the hair?
What kind of parrot will go to the parrot world forum to see the corresponding post bar?
Different kinds of parrots should not be in the same cage.
Reduce the feeding density, and add sulfur-containing protein or a small amount of natural gypsum or feather powder to the feed.
Improve sanitary conditions and increase the number of standing fences; Appropriate feed mix to ensure comprehensiveness and diversity; Isolate birds with this symptom in time; Add medicine such as feather pecking powder.
What is the feces like? Please take pictures, and don't turn on stray light when taking pictures.
(1) How to tell whether a parrot's feathers have fallen or been pulled out?
Generally speaking, the range of plucking is mostly below the neck. In other words, except for the feathers on the head, when the feathers on the chest, abdomen and even wings are gone, it may be pulled down by the bird itself.
The feather on the top of the head is missing, which may be worn by friction with the cage, or it may be pecked off by other birds in the same cage. A small number of feathers may fall off due to nutritional deficiency or infection such as PBFD, resulting in abnormal feather development.
(2) Why do parrots pluck feathers?
There are many reasons for pecking at feathers, which can be roughly divided into three major reasons: urgent, anxious and boring behavior problems, infection with viruses, molds, parasites and other diseases, and lack of certain nutrition.
Infection: Intestinal protozoan parasites such as poxvirus, herpesvirus, PBFD, and Giardia pyriformis, as well as secondary bacterial infections, can cause parrot skin itching and induce self-mutilation behaviors such as plucking.
B. Wild parrots rarely have self-mutilation behaviors such as plucking, so urgent environment, boring life and separation anxiety may also induce self-mutilation behaviors such as plucking. Amazon parrots often bite their own feet, gray parrots and Batangas often pull feathers from their chests, while parrots often pull feathers from their wings and buttocks.
Lack of vitamins A and E, or the addition of pigments, pesticides, preservatives and other substances in food may induce plucking behavior.
Other reasons: scientists believe that nicotine may cause allergic reactions in birds, and second-hand smoke may also be the cause of parrot self-harm behavior. Even the nicotine in the owner's hand may make the bird's feet allergic. Too dry environment (especially in winter), stuffy and unventilated, lack of sunlight, heavy metal (zinc) poisoning and other factors may also lead to depilation.
(3) How to treat it?
First of all, it is necessary to find out the reasons for self-harm by plucking feathers, such as deworming when infected with pyriform flagellates; Give antibiotics, bathe birds frequently, keep the environment ventilated, increase toys and improve the quality of life. In order to prevent birds from pecking at feathers or hurting themselves, most of them need to wear Elizabeth collars (bbs.e5sj.com/read.php? Tid-4604.html). The therapeutic effect of steroid drugs on allergic symptoms in mammals remains to be studied, but if depilation is a mental illness, we can try to give some drugs to relieve anxiety, such as clomipramine.