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| 295.1 | | ALCTRZ::BROOKS_DO | | Mon Dec 18 1989 21:47 | 7 |
| re:1
I found with my keets that one had parasites sp? but the other one
got away scott free, do Please do not rule out parasites. They can
be VERY harmful.
Donna
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| 295.2 | Feather Chewing | NYFS04::CHERYL | Cheryl Lee Correll | Tue Dec 19 1989 17:12 | 12 |
| Someone had told me that if a bird doesn't get enough calcium, they
will chew on the base of their feathers....Are they getting enough
calcium? I always keep mineral blocks in the cage, so I don't know
how true it is. Maybe one of the bird "experts" could comment.
I did have the problem a long time ago. It seemed that the male was
too immature and kept trying to mate with the female...He just kept
attacking her over and over again.
Good luck,
cheryl
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| 295.3 | My thoughts... | VMSSG::VMSINQ | | Wed Dec 27 1989 16:39 | 13 |
| It sounds like a a one sided love affair. However, don't rule out the
parasites. Judging from behavior and the areas that the feathers are
missing from, he is picking her. It's classic. Especiallly from the
back of the head. My suggestion is to separate them for a month or so.
Beef up her calcium intake and take away any breeding inducing foods
away from him, ie. wheat germ, vitamin E, Nekton E... just slow them
down a bit. Once you reintroduce her to him again... it should be
alright.
Jean Hutchins
(Feathered Obsessions Aviary)
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| 295.4 | Black Masked Love Bird with Similar Problem | OLDTMR::VINCENT | Linda Chasey Vincent 223-5381 | Fri Dec 29 1989 14:59 | 21 |
| I have three Black Masked Love Birds - sexes unknown. One of them
appears to be having a similar problem with the feathers around his
ears and neck. He/she is the smallest and least well groomed of the
three, but definitely friendliest (and my favorite).
For a time it seemed as if the other two were a definite pair, but now
I'm not so sure. For a few weeks the little guy was tearing up the paper
from the bottom of the cage and seemed to be trying to build a nest in
the food dish. Both the "nesting" and feather loss seems to have stopped
a week or so ago. The feather loss had also happened last spring but
again, only on this particular bird.
Is having three birds instead of pairs a problem? And if so, is there
a way I can tell what I've got in order to get the proper sex mate?
Should I leave all three of them in the same cage anyway? They seem to
be getting along OK now. Any idea on why this particular bird is
loosing feathers and not the other two? How do I check for parasites?
Thanks.
Linda
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| 295.5 | WHO'S PICKING ON WHO! | FDCV07::BOURGAULT | | Thu Jan 25 1990 16:23 | 23 |
| I also have a problem with one of my peach faced love birds. I had 2
(unknown sex) in a cage together for a couple of years and they got
along very well together - both were in excellent feather. Then I
was given a lone peach faced love bird from a friend who no longer
wanted to care for it. However, instead of placing it in the cage with
the other two, I purchased a mate for it. I guessed that the lone
bird was a male by its pelvic bone structure and its actions (It
constantly tried to mate with its mirror.) So I went to a breeder and
purchased a female peach faced for him. They seem to be getting along
fine, however, I have both cages hanging side by side, and since I
got them all together in one room, one of my love birds from the
unsexed pair now has missing feathers around its neck - especially
around the back by the beginning of his wings.
The feathers have been like this for the past 10 months or so. I tried
to rectify this problem by moving one set of birds into another room
for a couple of months but it didn't help for they could still hear
each other. So..I still have the problem. My guess is that they are
all males except for the one female that I got from the breeder and
one of the males is picking the other one from frustration or
jealousy. My next step is to find 2 females for the frustrated duo.
Denise
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