molt

I just got a new Budgie yesterday! His/Her name is Shiro (like that TV show character) And I have some questions for all of you... Q1: He (I'm just going to refer to him as a he) is not drinking! (or at least I have not seen him drink) Is there a possibility that he being sneaky and taking...

So my bird has just gotten over his first molt. Stressful, hormonal and cranky. But in the end we made it thru ok. He looks great and it gave him a chance ( us a chance ) to experience what flight feathers bring to the table. Since December he has lost three of his new feathers, making him very...

Sunflower is just over three months old and we have noticed a couple pin feathers on her head. She has also been shedding down feathers (we call them floofles). Not a lot, just a few here and there. The floofle shedding started on the first day of summer, which made sense. When should we expect...

All three of the babies are molting, and my poor Mimi girl is really having a heavy one. So far it's been 3-4 wing-feathers, a couple tail and a ton of little ones. The sass has been crazy in this house. :faint: She's a sassy girl but wow. While preening on me, little lady lost another...

I've looked all over the web, but have only come up to what feathers are, what they're made of, what they do, and the molting process. Now, I know that parrots molt symmetrically. However, I haven't seen threads on how molting can affect a household. I'm mostly asking this due to mess wise. How...