not moulting question

julie · Post by **julie** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:04 am

i have had indie for 2yrs next month and im pretty sure he has not had a full moult is this normal?

Post by **Datsun and Family** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:14 am

He probably has had one but it was done so gradually you did not notice.

Datsuns have all been quite severe but my budgie has been very subtle and we didn't even realise until it was well and truely over.

Mazziemom · Post by **Mazziemom** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:20 pm

Some of our birds do it so gradually we don't really notice until the wings need clipped

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Buddy and Mazzie are not those kind of birds though. Mazzie actually scared the CRAP out of my husband. I was in TX and he called me up freaking out because she had a TON of feathers under her cage. He had looked her over for injury thinking somehow they had been pulled... until I told him she was molting. I clean the cages normally so he didnt know LOL. She never looked any different but she would drop enough feathers every day to make a whole other bird

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Athena

Post by **kyria** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:01 pm

lol ... I said to my husband last moult of Kai's that we should have collected his feathers and made a new queensize doona and two new pillows for us. :lol:

julie · Post by **julie** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:53 am

i know that he goes really dull yellow sometimes and then he gets really bright later on could that be because he was moulting?

Post by **Datsun and Family** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:38 am

Yep, that sounds about right
:wink:

julie · Post by **julie** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:20 am

thats cool hes done that a few times.i feel better now thanks

IMR4N · Post by **IMR4N** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:55 am

Well my zazu hasn’t yet fully moulted yet iv had him about a year now and he hasn’t cropped any more feathers for about 23 months now and clipped him when I got him and he’s moulted everything else except his flight feathers which were clipped. I thought it might be a calcium deficiency so I boosted his calcium intake by giving him plenty of broccoli, cuttle fish, calcium drops and as much sunshine as I could but I guess he refuses to shed them bleeding feathers.

Mikaela · Post by **Mikaela** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:22 am

Mine, a yr old in May has only had a 'mini-moult'.

Just her head really. God she was a sight for sore eyes.

Me, being the curiousity that always kills the cat, didnt know what those pins where so I pulled one. Yeah, I know... STUPID! My lil baby's head bleed.

I was a new parront. Didnt know any better. :cry:

Post by **ringneck** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:18 am

It takes two molts (2 years) before all the old feathers are cycled out.

Hope this helps,

Imran Chaudhry

Post by **kyria** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:41 am

Thanks Imran, I am sure this explains alot to many

I know it does for me