Kari is bending her feathers?

[webchirp]

I have never seen anything like this. We have a vet appointment on the 10th. Kinda far out but I started a new job and the new boss encouraged me to use Friday focus time since I’m building my vacation days up. She is eating normally and all the other things.

Zia is also going back for plucking. Something is wrong but she’s been in twice now. She is likely a very older bird now. Adopted in 2011 with unknown age. She has always picked a spot on her chest every now and then but she pulled her back, chest, legs. And her feathers are not coming back as quickly. Maui had plucked her head months ago and those still didn't fill in.

 

[Macawnutz]

oh my. Looks like a baby macaw thing.

Itchy maybe? Do you see how she does it? Oh, or pulling them with her foot?

 

[Emma&pico]

Could she be preening too much and bending them too fa
I don’t know how to explain it but you know when conures preen their tails and pull them upwards could she be bending them too much maybe ?

I hope you get some answers for them both

 

[Emma&pico]

Like this but they pull tail feathers up to preen them mine run them through beaks after could it just be she bending them too much and making feathers stay bent only thing I can think of sorry

 

[webchirp]

I got her really wet just now to see if water weight would fix them but I can feel where she pinched them which made them kink.

 

[Emma&pico]

I got her really wet just now to see if water weight would fix them but I can feel where she pinched them which made them kink.

They do like making us worry

 

[Macawnutz]

I got her really wet just now to see if water weight would fix them, but I can feel where she pinched them, which made them kink.

My baby macaws did that, and I would literally bend them back to get them to sit right. Of course, for your sweetie, it's going to continue until you find the cause. Is this a new bird or a new behavior? Medical, hormonal, or behavioral... ???? I think that will be a process.

 

[webchirp]

My baby macaws did that, and I would literally bend them back to get them to sit right. Of course, for your sweetie, it's going to continue until you find the cause. Is this a new bird or a new behavior? Medical, hormonal, or behavioral... ???? I think that will be a process.

Older girl and the soak worked! I came in for dinner and she has them all straightened. Fingers crossed. This was a new behavior. Hopefully she’ll leave them straight since she wasn’t too happy with all the kinks.

 

[Peachfaced]

Older girl and the soak worked! I came in for dinner and she has them all straightened. Fingers crossed. This was a new behavior. Hopefully she’ll leave them straight since she wasn’t too happy with all the kinks.

She was just trying out the curly girl method, and here you are cramping up her style.

 

[Finchbreed]

Bent tail feathers are common in birds that sleep in nests or corners.
Just in case she had been doing that.

 

[webchirp]

She ended up shredding her wings later. She has arthritis and kidney trouble. She is 18 this year. Right now I have to hand feed her as she isn’t eating. Dr. Orosz said that when the kidneys act up, they get nauseous.

 

[sunnysmom]

Oh no. I'm so sorry. I'm assuming he gave her meds? Rosie is on gabapentin.

 

[Emma&pico]

So sorry to hear this hope she picks up for you and starts eating

 

[Sarahmoluccan]

Awww poor girl. I hope she regains her appetite soon. Is her Kidney problem chronic? I hope she's able to find a treatment plan that works for her

 

[webchirp]

Awww poor girl. I hope she regains her appetite soon. Is her Kidney problem chronic? I hope she's able to find a treatment plan that works for her

Not sure what happened as I thought it was a flare from her avian borna virus like 2019. But when she still wasn’t eating, Susan said she needed to do a chem panel. I know they are just aging out but Oiy.

 

[webchirp]

Oh no. I'm so sorry. I'm assuming he gave her meds? Rosie is on gabapentin.

For kidneys, enelapril and isoxuprine help perfusion. But she does have gabapentin and Celebrex for the awful arthritis.

 

[webchirp]

And my poor Zia has a severe yeast infection the feather follicles. Two months of yeast meds now which I think are finally working but I don’t know that the feathers can be saved. Wish we would have done this sooner. She is also on halidol to stop the plucking but barely grooming the feathers and they fall out.