Four weeks away - Wow!

[Maniiacy]

I just returned home from a four week trip, only to see two very naked birds - there was green down and feathers all over the bottom of their cage! This is their first moult, and so far, no sign of a ring (although they are still only 9 months old). They look so abused.

I was worried that the time away would cause them to be upset with me, especially because they weren't getting much reaction that they enjoyed - my mom isn't their favourite person in the world. So far, they seem perfectly normal.

[Maniiacy]

No plucking, luckily. I felt around their feathers and there are pin feathers (I think that's what they are?) coming in. The feathers just kind-of fall out when they move, or are preening. I'm not sure if it is a hard moult for them, as this is their first one.

They were really scruffy when I got home - White down feathers sticking out everywhere, yellowish feathers sticking out, and some patchy spots. Turns out they just hadn't had a bath in the month that I was gone ;) Now they look almost normal - still a little scruffy, but I assume that is just from the moult.

Have fun on your trip. ^^

[Melika]

My sister's Tsume ALWAYS moulted hard like that. One weekend she went out of town and I didn't know he was moulting (he started a week or two before Hane) and I went to check on him... I freaked out at first when I saw him from across the room. I thought he was sick and dying he looked so bad. But upon closer inspection, it was just moulting.