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Rollerblading along the road
Astro is moulting. Today she was preening on my knee when I saw some threads of fluff in her mouth, detached from the actual ball of fluff. And then moments later she had an actual snapped feather in her mouth.
Now we do play very rough on my carpet and it definitely isn't soft. I roll her backwards and do a lot of rough and tumble play and have been doing a lot lately. I wonder if it just broke during one of our many daily sessions of rolling around on the carpet.
At the same time I can't stop thinking maybe she bit it off? Because she has about 5 feathers on her crop that are badly damaged with just the shaft remaining. I noticed this when she was about 7 months old and took her to the vet and she had a slight bacterial infection but other than that, she was healthy. I know a lot of you say that a bird so young cannot have behavioral plucking / barbering issues but this does seem to be the case with Astro if it wasn't the infection. She also has some roughed up feathers just above her right leg where she has a weak tendon. The vet said it would strenghten up with age and it did.
Even though she's moulting, she seems to be very gentle with her feathers and never seems to obsess on one area. In fact, she doesn't even bother removing the pin feather layers most of the time and her new feathers stay that way for weeks.
Should I be worried about this feather?
Now we do play very rough on my carpet and it definitely isn't soft. I roll her backwards and do a lot of rough and tumble play and have been doing a lot lately. I wonder if it just broke during one of our many daily sessions of rolling around on the carpet.
At the same time I can't stop thinking maybe she bit it off? Because she has about 5 feathers on her crop that are badly damaged with just the shaft remaining. I noticed this when she was about 7 months old and took her to the vet and she had a slight bacterial infection but other than that, she was healthy. I know a lot of you say that a bird so young cannot have behavioral plucking / barbering issues but this does seem to be the case with Astro if it wasn't the infection. She also has some roughed up feathers just above her right leg where she has a weak tendon. The vet said it would strenghten up with age and it did.
Even though she's moulting, she seems to be very gentle with her feathers and never seems to obsess on one area. In fact, she doesn't even bother removing the pin feather layers most of the time and her new feathers stay that way for weeks.
Should I be worried about this feather?
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