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Hey Yall:

My oldest girl has started rubbing her beak against about anything she can. She will go to her cage and sit there and rub her beak up and down 5-10 times between the bars. This is day 2 of this. If she was a cage bird, I would think she just wanted out.

She has plenty of stuff to rub her beak on but never uses it. Am I freaking for no reason

That beak and feather disease is my worse fear!

Beak and feather disease would show as a malformation of the beak and feathers. So you don't have to worry in that regard. After all, you keep commenting on how beautiful her feathers are. ^_~

It might just feel good. I had a lovebird who loved to twang her cage bars like a guitar. Just because it sounded good to her.

Birds have many sensory areas in their beak, so again she might just like how it feels.

I am a hypocondreac (sp) and I am passing it on to my babies!

LOL! But I bet they're not worrying. ^_~

I want to come back as an Irn, I have made up my mind. And if their is a god, I'll end up with some sucker for a Momma like my girls. I bet they snicker at me behind my back.... hehe we got her runnin' dont we! And if she is real lucky we may not bite her, although her fingers do smell like chicken today."

My Chookie does it too. If he's sitting up on top of the curtain rail (his favourite possie), he'll rub his beak on the wall. My son told me that he was 'drawing' on the wall with his beak. Sometimes after he has eaten something he will sit on my shoulder and then rub is beak over my neck - yuck. I think it is just a grooming thing. He has heaps of cuttle fish and calcium bells etc, he just prefers walls and necks.

My biggest fear is that daggone beak and feather disease. God, I fear that so badly. Thanks yall, good to know my girl isnt the only FREAK

I don’t know why you are afraid of PBFD so its not contagious or fatal just makes your bird all fluffy and like a hatch ling. It even makes them more dependent on the human companion. Some birds even over come the disease.