miya
Strolling the yard
Hi everyone! A couple months ago my budgies had their first molt and lost just about all of their little forehead bars. I noticed this week they've been having some changes around the face, mainly the forehead and eye area. These are my first birds so I'm not sure if this is something I need to worry about, so thought I'd check in with the experts on here before I drive myself crazy fretting over them
Unfortunately my little guys freak out if I get too close with a camera so I'm trying to (for now) just work on describing it. Hopefully I can get some decent shots to show you what I mean. But anyway, the birds are acting normal. Eating, poop is fine, lots of noise, flying fine, etc. I noticed that around the eyes (near the corner toward the cere/beak) they have some little feather patches that look.. I guess, for lack of a better adjective, rough? I can't tell if it's the start of more little black bar colorings or if it's a weird texture kind of thing. It has the same texture like the feathers on the top of their head when they stick up a little (doesn't lay flat like their other feathers), but has the coloring like someone took a pen and made a bunch of dots on a piece of paper. One of them also is missing feathers just a bit above the cere? Like a little v-shaped bald spot, I can see down to what I guess is skin because it's this little flesh colored v. They aren't molting right now, just a couple feathers here and there, so I'm not sure what's going on.
Edit: forgot to mention age just in case that may be a factor, I got them in June and they were estimated to be 3-4 months at the time. Had their first big molt in August/September-ish.
Any thoughts?
Unfortunately my little guys freak out if I get too close with a camera so I'm trying to (for now) just work on describing it. Hopefully I can get some decent shots to show you what I mean. But anyway, the birds are acting normal. Eating, poop is fine, lots of noise, flying fine, etc. I noticed that around the eyes (near the corner toward the cere/beak) they have some little feather patches that look.. I guess, for lack of a better adjective, rough? I can't tell if it's the start of more little black bar colorings or if it's a weird texture kind of thing. It has the same texture like the feathers on the top of their head when they stick up a little (doesn't lay flat like their other feathers), but has the coloring like someone took a pen and made a bunch of dots on a piece of paper. One of them also is missing feathers just a bit above the cere? Like a little v-shaped bald spot, I can see down to what I guess is skin because it's this little flesh colored v. They aren't molting right now, just a couple feathers here and there, so I'm not sure what's going on.
Edit: forgot to mention age just in case that may be a factor, I got them in June and they were estimated to be 3-4 months at the time. Had their first big molt in August/September-ish.
Any thoughts?
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