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not moulting question
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:04 am
by julie
i have had indie for 2yrs next month and im pretty sure he has not had a full moult is this normal?
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:14 am
by Datsun and Family
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:20 pm
by Mazziemom
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
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:01 pm
by kyria
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:53 am
by julie
i know that he goes really dull yellow sometimes and then he gets really bright later on could that be because he was moulting?
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:38 am
by Datsun and Family
Yep, that sounds about right
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:20 am
by julie
thats cool hes done that a few times.i feel better now thanks
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:55 am
by IMR4N
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:22 am
by Mikaela
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:18 am
by ringneck
It takes two molts (2 years) before all the old feathers are cycled out.
Hope this helps,
Imran Chaudhry
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:41 am
by kyria
Thanks Imran, I am sure this explains alot to many
I know it does for me