Noticed about 2 days ago that Rainbow has a bare patch under her neck. I'd always seen her tilt her head down to groom herself when I came close to the cage, but she never had any balding patches until now.
= No change to diet for past few months, a mixture of roudybush, zupreem FB and higgins pellets, with seed blend from Higgins (Mayan Harvest - Conure sized)
= No change to day-night cycles for past few months
= No change to excretion
= No noticeable changes in my other 2 budgies and 2 lovebirds who are caged beside hers
She is a no-touch bird because she hates me. I recently see her a lot more due to the stay-at-home thing going on, so I suppose I do 'croon' at her more often than usual.
Estimated age almost 2 years [ gotcha July 2018 ]. She's female, sometimes persistent egg-layer and I'm constantly battling against reducing her hormonal cycles. I had managed to stop her egg-laying for a few weeks but today she laid an egg.
She has been playing with a bell-toy quite a bit of late. I've removed it in case of any metal ingestion.
I did use F10 diluted to spray the cages last week. Wondering if that might have triggered anything?
I've decided to take her upstairs into my own room at night in case my dad is staying up too late at night. I notice he's not waking up as early as before the stay-at-home thingy.
Rainbow did okay in my room last night. A few chirps now and then in dim light while I played soft classical music around 9pm, some beak grinding and then she was quiet through the whole night until 8am.
Due to the covid-19 thing going on, I can't bring her to a vet because its considered non-emergency. The 'lockdown' is until 1 June, but no guarantee on the date because they extended it once already.
= No change to diet for past few months, a mixture of roudybush, zupreem FB and higgins pellets, with seed blend from Higgins (Mayan Harvest - Conure sized)
= No change to day-night cycles for past few months
= No change to excretion
= No noticeable changes in my other 2 budgies and 2 lovebirds who are caged beside hers
She is a no-touch bird because she hates me. I recently see her a lot more due to the stay-at-home thing going on, so I suppose I do 'croon' at her more often than usual.
Estimated age almost 2 years [ gotcha July 2018 ]. She's female, sometimes persistent egg-layer and I'm constantly battling against reducing her hormonal cycles. I had managed to stop her egg-laying for a few weeks but today she laid an egg.
She has been playing with a bell-toy quite a bit of late. I've removed it in case of any metal ingestion.
I did use F10 diluted to spray the cages last week. Wondering if that might have triggered anything?
I've decided to take her upstairs into my own room at night in case my dad is staying up too late at night. I notice he's not waking up as early as before the stay-at-home thingy.
Rainbow did okay in my room last night. A few chirps now and then in dim light while I played soft classical music around 9pm, some beak grinding and then she was quiet through the whole night until 8am.
Due to the covid-19 thing going on, I can't bring her to a vet because its considered non-emergency. The 'lockdown' is until 1 June, but no guarantee on the date because they extended it once already.